01.Mar.2009
Martin "DaFreak" Rebentisch (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #107
The 107th musicpackage by LQS includes a MP3-tune called "Atmosphere Of Energy" in Drum'n'Bass-style. The Russian musican Alex West has composed the track. The cover was created by Flintstone which is bettern under the former pseudonym Angeldust.
The musicpackage can be downloaded under the title link (7 MB). (cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Mar.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Cubic IDE: Localize 1.2
Localize is an Add-On for Cubic IDE which integrates the catalog compiler SimpleCat to the developing environment.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Mar.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Magazine: The Crypt - Issue 54
The 54th issue of the English magazine called The Crypt includes different articles. Amiga users can find a tutorial "Hardware Access Using AmigaBASIC And ARexx" as well as the poem "The Newbie A500 User".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Mar.2009
David Brunet (ANF)
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New article on Obligement website
The editorial stuff of the French magazine Obligement has published some articles from older issues:
- Amiga/MorphOS news of january/february 2009
- Old news of january/february 1997
- Interview with Mathias Parnaudeau (AmigaOS/MorphOS developer)
- Interview with Lewis Eggebrecht (engineer from Commodore, 1993)
- Review of MorphOS 2.2
- Review of Origyn Web Browser
- Review of Beastlord
- File: PowerOS
- File: reconstructing the leftovers on the Amiga Kickstart 1.0 disk
- Hardware: Indivision AGA 1200
- Hardware: Deneb
- Tutorial: installation of AmigaOS 4 on Classic PowerPC Amiga
- Tutorial: installation of AmigaOS 4.1 on Sam440ep
- Tutorial: installation of AmigaOS 4 on Mac Mini (unofficial)
- Update of the Amiga games list
- Specials quizz about years 2005, 2006, 2007 et 2008
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01.Mar.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AROS: MPlayer 1.0-v2
Krzysztof "Deadwood" Smiechowicz has published an update of his port of the movie player MPlayer. MPlayer-AROS is based on Fabian Coeurjoly's MorphOS-port. A current version of AROS (24.02.2009 or newer) is required. Changes in MPlayer 1.0-v2:
- updated to MorphOS sources 2009.02.02
- updated to MPlayer sources 2009.02.25
- enabled support for DVD (free and encrypted)
- created DVD navigation menu
- enabled playlist
- enabled support for network streams
- validated working with many multimedia formats (mp3, mpeg, avi, mov, wmv)
- improved stability
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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28.Feb.2009
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood 4: VideoUp available
On the homepage of Airsoft Softwair you can read a official press release which announced the publishing of Hollywood 4: VideoUp. This is a major update which brings along many new features and general improvements over Hollywood 3. The biggest new feature is that Hollywood can now export AVI videos.
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27.Feb.2009
Patrick Nevian (ANF)
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Music with Amiga: Blue Metal Rose - "Spreading the seed"
"Spreading the seed" which is the debut album by Blue Metal Rose was made with the help of an Amiga 4000. For the drum sequences and the manipulation of Synth-Sounds the Octamed Soundstudio was used.
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27.Feb.2009
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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Catalog compiler: SimpleCat 3.16
Guido Mersmann wrote: SimpleCat is a program for creating and managing localization files (screenshot). It is not a new program but it exists since the publishing of AmigaOS 2.1 and the Locale-System - though for 16 years.
Version 1 was still completely written in assembler while version 2 was completely new written with a lot of improvements. With version 3 the complex internal concept was lifted to a new level and has got a MUI user-interface. Since version 3 SimpleCat is also part of the developing environment CubicIDE.
SimpleCat is useful for users who want to fix bugs in the catalogs or want to make a translation as well as for developers who want to edit all catalogs of a project. Convenient import and export functions are available which can be used with the Shell (e.g. makefile) or the GUI.
By deviding the developer form the translation modus the simple translator gets those possibilities which are necessary for his work. With a search function it is possible to find certain texts.
There is a big advantage for developers. All catalog files can be managed in one file. If an entry should be deleted then the developer does not have to edit every single catalog file but can delete the corresponding text from the catalogscript-file (.cs). This applies as well for adding or changing labels. There is also the localization wizard which almost automatically locates a source code and then creates fitting localization entries.
With version 3.16 the GUI-part of SimpleCat now left the beta status because all functions were completely implemented and tested. An AmigaOS 4-version does not work and because I cannot test it I decided to leave out this version. Perhaps anybody can make available a version of OS 4 for the Pegasos2. This could be of use for the others projects.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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27.Feb.2009
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AmigaOS 4: Directory Opus 4.18.22
Joachim "Zerohero" Birging has published the first version of the well-known file manager Directory Opus which supports the 64-bit-file accesses and therefore gets along with files bigger than four gigabytes.
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[News message: 27. Feb. 2009, 16:38] [Comments: 0]
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27.Feb.2009
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Audio-Player: AmigaAMP 2.20
Thomas Wenzel has published an update of his audio player AmigaAMP. In version 2.20 the support of M3U-playlists was improved and the recognition of the used bitrate was reworked. Additionally mouse wheel Ereignisse incidents under AmigaOS 4 are now recognized and the compatibility of the Gadtools-GUI with the mentioned opearting system was improved.
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26.Feb.2009
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Demo-Party: Breakpoint will take place
In January the organizers of the "Breakpoint" - according to them the biggest only demo scene event of the world Welt - have asked for financial support: Several main sponsors had canceled its support for the party.
Already a few weeks later the organizers can be relieved: New sponsors were found and during few weeks more than 15.000 Euro bounties were donated.
The Breakpoint 2009 will take place on from 10th to 13th April in Bingen on the Rhine.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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26.Feb.2009
amigaworld.net (ANF)
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AROS complete system: iMica one
Steve "Cluster UK" Jones who was the manager of several well-known former Amiga companies like Checkmate Digital (A 1500), HiQ and Siamese Systems is getting involved in Amiga again and offers a complete system for AROS in his webshop.
The computer is called "iMica one" and contains an Intel atom-based motherboard in mini-ITX-format (17x17 cm) and is delivered with the native version of the AROS-distribution VmwAROS. The system is supposed to cost 250 British Pound. For an additional charge the Amiga emulator Amiga-Forever will be delivered as well.
The features of the iMica one:
- Black Mini-ITX case with Aluminium Parts
- Intel® D945GCLF2 with Intel® Dual Core Atom™ 330 Processor with a 533 MHz system bus
- Memory: One 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) sockets Support for DDR2 533/667 MHz DIMMs Support for up to 2 GB of system memory
- Samsung 1GB (1x1GB) DDR2 800MHz
- Chipset: Intel® 945GC Express Chipset and Intel® I/O Controller Hub 7 (ICH7)
- Audio Realtek* ALC662 audio codec (5.1 channel HD audio) (Driver unavailable yet)
- Video: Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950 & S-video output support (Runs in VESA support mode Very Good though, native drivers come later)
- I/O Control: SMSC* LPC47M997 based Legacy I/O controller for serial, parallel, and PS/2* ports (not all supported)
- LAN Support: 10/100/1000 Mbps LAN subsystem using the Realtek* LAN adapter device
- Peripheral interfaces:
- 2x Front USB 2.0 ports & Front Audio
- 4x Rear USB 2.0 ports
- Two Serial SATA ports (3.0 GB/s) (Must be switched to Legacy Mode)
- One parallel ATA IDE interface with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100 support
- One serial port
- One parallel port
- PS/2* keyboard and mouse ports (Must use these, especially mouse only works from PS2 port)
- Expansion capabilities: One PCI Conventional* bus connector
- Slim DVD-RW 160GB 7200RPM SATA II
According to Jones in a thread on amigaworld.net there is only a limited amount of computers available because some components used in the computer are only available very limited. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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26.Feb.2009
Murakami (ANF)
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Print magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR, issue 43
41th issue of the French print magazine aMiGa=PoWeR offers the following topics:
- News: MorphOS 2.2, AmigaOS 4.1 for Pegasos, WarpView 1.03, AmiCygnix 1.0, OWB...
- Reviews: Sam440-ep, AmigaOS 4.1, NoWinED 0.77, Indivision AGA, "Out of Silence" audio CD, OS4 Software...
- Tutorials: OS4 Multiboot, SCSI on AmigaOne, HTML programming...
Since 1998 aMiGa=PoWeR is published by AFLE and sold worldwide.
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25.Feb.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Official updates
Press release: For registered customers of AmigaOS 4.1 (for AmigaOne, SAM440ep and Pegasos 2) there are two minor updates in the download section of the new Hyperion Entertainment website.
The fix for the elf.library includes a reworked elf.library.kmod Kickstart modul which solves the problems with binaries which were compiled with the latest SDK. This download is explicitly recommended.
The update of the IDE-drivers includes new versions of all IDE-drivers which were delivered with AmigaOS 4.1. All users it is explicitly recommeneded installing the new drivers. Especially owners of Pegasos 2 will figure out that the new drivers improve the performance of the system noticeably.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Feb.2009
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Hyperion celebrates its 10th birthday, website reworked
After a longer break the website of Hyperion can be accessed again: Celebrating its 10th birthday the website of the company was completely redesigned. Customer accounts and product registrations were not saved from the old website so there is a brief instruction how registered customers can get access to their old data.
The site uses modern web-technologies and therefore can only be limited used with IBrowse or AWeb. But downloads of software updates should work fine.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Feb. 2009, 15:12] [Comments: 0]
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25.Feb.2009
Pegasosforum.de (Forum)
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AROS: New test version of Efika-port
Michal Schulz has published an update of his AROS-port for the Efika-board developed by bplan. This fixes a USB-bug and offers now support of hraddrives as well (screenshot). Please note that you can start AROS only from that partition which also contains the file AROS.boot and the corresponding archive.
Torrent: aros-efika-20090224.iso.bz2.torrent
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Feb. 2009, 13:14] [Comments: 0]
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24.Feb.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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EasyADF PCMCIA Multi-Card Transfer Kit
Under the title link the British trader AmigaKit offers an updated package of his PCMCIA-adapter-kit for memory cards. Additionally there are now three new tutorial videos which show the EasyADF-software:
Video 1,
Video 2,
Video 3
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[News message: 24. Feb. 2009, 19:00] [Comments: 0]
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24.Feb.2009
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 3.7
Jörg Strohmayer has published an update of his port of the Origyn Web Browser. OWB 3.7 now is based on the latest version ("Galegon") of the rendering engine used in the OWB-project. The further changes are listed in the Changelog.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Feb. 2009, 17:45] [Comments: 0]
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24.Feb.2009
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Several SDL-ports for AmigaOS 3
Artur "Arti" Jarosik has ported some SDL-based games for AmigaOS 3 again:
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[News message: 24. Feb. 2009, 15:42] [Comments: 0]
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24.Feb.2009
PPA (ANF)
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Interview with Simon Archer (CodeBench)
The Polish Amiga portal PPA has published an interview with Simon Archer who has developed the integrated development environment CodeBench.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Feb. 2009, 00:36] [Comments: 0]
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23.Feb.2009
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Vim 7.0 for AmiCygnix
Edgar Schwan has published Vim 7.0 for his X11-environment AmiCygnix. Vim is a text editor. It is an improved version of the vi-editor which is included in most of the UNIX-systems.
Vim is often called as "Programmer's Editor" - many users think of it as a complete IDE. Nevertheless it can be used for more. You can use Vim for writing eMails or editing configuration files.
This is the second release of Vim. The changes:
- Working printer support
- Executing external commands is supported now; therefore "Make" works now
- Working localization
- External command "ctags" for creating source code index files is included
- GTK2 user interface
- Compiled with complete ("huge") featureset - support of "from right to left writings" and much more
Download: vim.lha (11 MB)
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23.Feb.2009
PPA (Webseite)
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USB-Stack: ANAIIS 0.98
ANAIIS ("Another Native Amiga IO Interface Stack") written by Gilles Pelletier is an USB-stack which runs on systems with a 68000-processor. The stack requires at least AmigaOS 1.3 and is meant for Zorro-II-systems without accelerator cards.
Download: anaiis.lha (107 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Feb. 2009, 20:11] [Comments: 0]
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23.Feb.2009
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: First test version of Web-Browser OWB
Stanislaw Szymczyk has published a first version of his AROS-port of the Origyn Web Browser for testing purposes (screenshot). So far for the bounty project 1231 US-Dollar and 120 Euro were donated.
Download: OWB.tar.gz (11 MB)
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23.Feb.2009
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Software-News until 23.02.2009
Matthias Münch has ported several console based tools from the Unix world:
AmigaOS 3
- Apache 1.3.41 (Websever)
- bzip2 1.0.5 (Archiver)
- NcFTP 3.2.2 (FTP-CLient)
- OpenJPEG 1.3 (JPEG2000-Codec)
- PHP 4.4.9 (Skriptsprache)
- thttpd 2.21b incl. PHP 4.4.9 (fast webserver with PHP-support)
AmigaOS 4
- bzip2 1.0.5 (archiver)
- flac 1.2.1 (lossless audio compression)
- mp3gain 1.4.6 (lossless volume modification for MP3)
- potrace 1.8 (converts bitmap graphics to vector formats)
- sox 14.2.0 (converts between diferent audio formats)
MorphOS
- Apache 1.3.41 (Webserver)
- bzip2 1.0.5 (Archiver)
- NcFTP 3.2.2 (FTP-Client)
- normalize 0.7.7 (Volume modification for audio files)
- OpenJPEG 1.3 (JPEG2000-Codec)
- PHP 4.4.9 (Script language)
- shorten 3.6.1 (Audio compressor)
- thttpd 2.21b incl. PHP 4.4.9 (fast webserver with PHP-support)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Feb.2009
Sébastien Jeudy (ANF)
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Relec-Website reworked
The Swiss trader Relec has reworked its website. The website currently is only available in French but an English and German translation will follow soon.
The new design is not compatible to IBrowse and AWeb. Therefore the old website can be also accessed under relec.ch/index_old.html. Some products are currently not available there but will be added gradually.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Feb. 2009, 15:09] [Comments: 0]
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23.Feb.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Amiga Fever online
Press release: With the kind permission of Malte Mundt as well as with the help of Bjoern Berz and Roland Wöß today all ever published issues of the German magazine Amiga Fever are available on the Amiga Future homepage.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Feb. 2009, 14:55] [Comments: 0]
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23.Feb.2009
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MorphOS: Origyn Web Browser 1.1
Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly has published a new version of the Origyn Web Browser. Coeurjoly offers three different versions of the program: Additional to the standard version with all functions there is an OWB-nosvg (no support for the SVG-format) and OWB-lite (no SVG-support, only UTF-8 and European codepages) which reduce the need for memory by some megabytes.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Feb. 2009, 01:46] [Comments: 0]
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23.Feb.2009
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Jump'n Run Giddy 3
Now the third part of Phil Ruston's "Giddy"-serie is also availble for MorphOS: Ilkka "itix" Lehtoranta has ported the platform game to MorphOS (1, 2). (cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Feb. 2009, 01:35] [Comments: 0]
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