04.Sep.2007
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles at Obligement website
During the last two months the following articles have been added to the website of the French AmigaOS- and MorphOS magazine Obligement (the interview with Kelly Samel is also available as English translation):
- Amiga and MorphOS news of july/august 2007
- Interview with Kelly Samel (games coder)
- Interview with Jean-Baptiste Garnier (webmaster of Amiga Music Preservation)
- Review of AmiPodder
- Review of rRootage
- More than 30 reviews of classic Amiga games (Alien Breed 2, Global Effect, Maupiti Island, Shadow Of The Beast,...)
- File : History of the Amiga - years 1999 and 2000
- File : the Scoopex group
- File : the protections on Amiga and Atari ST
- File : the Mega Drive emulation
- Hardware : Efika 5200B (update)
- Hardware : BVision
- Hardware : modification of the Escom A1200 floppy drive
- Hardware : stranges USB devices
- Point of view : the public domain
- Tutorial : grab an Amiga Kickstart with GrabKick
- Press revue
- Quizz of july/august 2007
- Special quizz about the Amiga magazines
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Sep.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: CD-/DVD-burning program AmiDVD 1.37
AmiDVD witten by Jörg Strohmayer is a very simple CD-/DVD-burning program which first creates an image-file in ISO9660-format and then will write this one on a CD or DVD. Changes since the last version:
- Selecting the write speed didn't work with a GSA-H54N and DVD+R,
changed the method to detect if setting the write speed is supported
again.
- Some gadgets in tab 2 were updated even if nothing changed, fixed
Direkter Download: AmiDVD_1.37.lha (43 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Sep.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 68 published
Press release The German and English issue 68 (September/October 2007) of the Amiga Future has been released. This means that all subscriptions and preorders have been brought to the postal office. Subscriptions to outside Germany have been shipped via airmail.
Besides many articles covering the Amiga there are reviews of AWeb, Shuffle or an interview with the developer of Sputnik as well and much more in this issue. A more detailed description of contents and German and English excerpts can be found at the title link.
On the cover CD there are many full versions again besides lots of PD software: Starbirds, AGDB, Mikro Mortal Tennis, Excellent Card Games 1, Excellent Card Games 2, Excellent Card Games 3, Serious Backgammon, Doktor, Blast Squad (so far unreleased), Robossy, Puzzo Mania, Zerberk, Minerunner, Poweroids, Star Defender, Monster of Terror, Equality, Technoball OCS, Technoball AGA, Tronic.
The Amiga Future is available as a single issue or subscription. You can choose whether you want it with or without a cover CD. The Amiga Future is available directly at the editorial office at the title link or some Amiga dealers.
Dealers interested in offering the Amiga Future to their customers should drop us an e-mail.
We are looking urgently for help regarding the English edition of the Amiga Future. We look more translator having English as their native language with a very good knowledge of German. Furthermore we look for correctors for the English articles.
If you are able and willing to help us then please write an e-mail to andreas@amigafuture.de using the subject "Amiga Future". (snx)
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04.Sep.2007
Amiga Forever Team (ANF)
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Cloanto: Minimig photos / Support announcement
Under the title link Cloanto's Amiga Forever team has published photos of the Minimig board taken by Dennis van Weeren.
They announce to support the Minimig with the products Amiga Forever and Amiga Explorer.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Sep.2007
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Jump'n Run: Under Cover
"Under Cover" is a from Flashback inspired Jump'n Run game for classic Amigas. Original based on a in PPaint developed animated film made from 800 single frames, is Under Cover now with help of the construction-kits "Backbone" a real Arcade-game including subsequences. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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03.Sep.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Several reworked german catalogfiles
Hans-Jörg Ottinger provides new or reworked german catalog files for following applications:
- Amigift
- AmiPodder
- AmRSS
- Kulce
- PolyOrganizer
- WookieChat
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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02.Sep.2007
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AmigaOS 4: GuruMeditation looking for beta testers
The Swedish dealer and publisher GuruMeditation is looking for beta testers for an unspecified project. Users who have beta testing experience and have access to at least two hard drives with more than 10 GB of free disk space are wanted. People who have experience with the creation of manuals are also needed.
Interested parties are called upon to get in touch with GuruMeditation via E-Mail. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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02.Sep.2007
amigaworld.net (Web page)
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Magazine: The Crypt - Issue 50
The 50th issue of the English magazine The Crypt, besides numerous articles on the most diverse subjects, also includes a construction manual for a game port adapter for the Amiga 600, a proposal for an A600-based "DJ Companion Project," as well as B.Walker's blog, in which he explains why he still uses an Amiga. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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02.Sep.2007
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MorphOS: otrMUI 0.13, SimpleView 2.0b
otrMUI 0.13
Thomas Igracki is making available a new version of otrMUI (reported by amiga-news), in which the decoded file can be directly transferred to a movie player.
Link: Homepage
Direct download: otrMUI.lha (44 KB) (Readme)
SimpleView 2.0b
SimpleView by Tom "AmigaHarry" Duin is a minimalist picture viewer, which can now be launched from Ambient as well. The program then opens a requester in which multiple pictures can be selected at the same time.
Link: Homepage
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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02.Sep.2007
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Pianeta Amiga: English web page online
Under the title link, an English page for the upcoming "Pianeta Amiga 2007" is also online since today, besides the Italian one. The event is organized in Empoli in Italy like in previous years on September 22 and 23.
Among the exhibitors are, among others, ACube Systems, who, as a company, not only want to demonstrate the PowerPC motherboard SAM440ep, but also sell it in the course of Pianeta Amiga (reported by amiga-news.de). (snx) (Translation: cad)
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01.Sep.2007
4sceners.de (website)
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CD review: Number Nine by Chris Hülsbeck
On 4Sceners.de was a review of the latest album "Number Nine" by Chris Hülsbeck released under the title link. The report was written by Jürgen 'Bobic' Beck who's known from his participation in back2roots.org and from several articles for the Amiga Plus.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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01.Sep.2007
amigaworld.net (website)
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AmiKit wallpaper contest: vote
The next version of AmiKit (an AmigaOS distribution for WinUAE users) will offer something for the eyes: Until yesterday had pixel artists time to send exclusive Workbench background images.
The best posts are now available under the title link and the users may now vote or their favorites until September, 10th. The three most voted backgroung images will be delivered as official wallpapers from the next version of AmiKit on, the artists will be awarded with prices.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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01.Sep.2007
RhoSigma, Roland Heyder (ANF)
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MemOptimizer 3.056
MemOptimizer by Roland Heyder defragments the system memory. Changes since the last version:
- smaller optimisations in the AvailMem() patch that now also correctly supports MEMF_LARGEST for the FreeStack though this has to be seen more theoretically as the biggest block already has to be smaller than 4096 bytes to even have a chance to find a bigger block on the stack. In most cases won't the system run with such a lack of memory :-)
- arithmetic overflow removed in StackUsage()
- MEMF_REVERSE usage adjusted, could be refused even if the calling task was allowed when the memory was taken from the FreeStack (makes no sense here as the blocks on the stack aren't in order). From now on will all allowed REVERSE demands directly forwarded the the system's FreeList to secure that these will really come from the high end of the memory list.
- critical situation in ClearStack() corrected, a pointer was still used after the memory it pointed to was already deallocated
- As several people told me does MemOptimizer run without problems under MorphOS, of course only in the UNPATCHed mode as it wouldn't be a good idea to replace the native PPC code of MorphOS by 68k functions.
Direct download: MemOptimizer.lha (138 KB)
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01.Sep.2007
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Repair shop: Amiga Center moved (France)
Jean-Jacques Boulet, French retailer of Amiga spare parts and repairs, moved again. The current address and telefone number can be found under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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01.Sep.2007
Matthias Rustler (ANF)
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AROS: MUIbase ported
MUIbase is a relational, programmable data base for AmigaOS ported by Steffen Gutmann for AROS/i386. The necessary changes were entered into the SVN archive of the MUIbase project on Sourceforge so that an adaption for AROS/PPC can be done as well.
Please have in mind that an up-to-date version of AROS is needed as in the course of the porting several bugs in AROS had to be fixed. Besides that you have to create an assign muibase: otherwise it could lead to crashes of some demo sata bases. Should it happen that the focus gets lost and no new data records can be entered you have to press the Tab key.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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01.Sep.2007
(ANF)
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10 years Distributed Amiga
Last month it was the 10th anniversary of the Distributed.net team "Distributed Amiga". Since their founding by some regular IRC users the project counted several thousands of participants. Current statistics can be found on the team homepage under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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01.Sep.2007
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: vector paint program MindSpace 0.99a
MindSpace is a paint program to create among other things flowcharts, UML diagrams, mind maps or vector images (screenshot).
For the coming version 1.0 they are still looking for MindSpace diagrams as addendum, the two best ones will be awarded with 25 pounds Sterling each.
Changes for version 0.99a include:
- Import external images (resize and crop)
- Rotate and flip objects
- Choose dimensions of image when exporting .png
- Revamped menus
- Bugfixes
- An attempt at Anti-Aliased Display for registered users
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31.Aug.2007
Martin Merz (ANF)
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AISS - Amiga Image Storage System 4.0
Martin Merz released version 4.0 of his "Amiga Image Storage System" (AISS). AISS is a system to store, access and maintain toolbar images under AmigaOS and MorphOS.
Features of AISS 4.0:
- 1788 toolbar images and animations
- 24 bit PNG images with 8 bit alpha channel
- printable PDF documentation
Further information about AISS is available on AISS' homepage aswell as the AISS newsletter.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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31.Aug.2007
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: OpenTTD 0.5.3 Release Candidate 3
OpenTTD is an open-source clone of the well-known PC strategy game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe" from the 90ies which
has many extensions: A network modus, individual graphic sets and translations to many languages. But files of the
original version are required. You can read the last changes in the
changelog.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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30.Aug.2007
amigafuture.de (website)
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File System: SFS 1.275
The latest version of the alternative file system SFS now supports files larger than four GB under AmigaOS 3 as well. The changes in detail:
- Replaced mutexes by semaphores again
- Built for AmigaOS 3.x/m68k incl. 'SFS/2' support.
To use 'SFS/2' partitions on AmigaOS 3.x you have to install SmartFileSystem into the RDB with DOSType 'SFS/2' (0x53465302), i.e. to use both 'SFS\0' and 'SFS\2' partitions you have to install the same SmartFileSystem binary 2 times into the RDB.
If booting from 'SFS\2' partitions isn't required you can load SmartFileSystem as kickstart module using tools like LoadResident, LoadModule, etc. instead of storing it twice in the RDB.
SFS 1.275 is available for AmigaOS 3/4. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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30.Aug.2007
amigaworld.net (website)
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Instant-Messenging: AIM-/ICQ-Plugin for Epistula
For registered users of the instant messenger Epistula an AIM-/ICQ plugin is again available. Actually a file transfer function is being implemented. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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29.Aug.2007
amigaworld.net (website)
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ImageFX Tutorial: The Amazing Cecilia CD, zweite Auflage
For US$ 25 (incl. shipping to Europe) "The Amazing Cecilia CD" offers many tutorials and example projects for the image processor ImageFX. A table of content of the CD as welle as a list of changes regarding the first issue is available at the title link. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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29.Aug.2007
amigafuture.de (website)
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Point'n Click Adventures: ScummVM 0.10.0r2
Uwe Ryssel provides a new AmigaOS 3 version of ScummVM. ScummVM is an interpreter for several graphic adventures. The most prominent games for this engine are Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Beneath a Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 & 2, Flight of the Amazon Queen, Gobliiins, Erben der Erde, The Feeble Files and The Legend of Kyrandia. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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29.Aug.2007
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File transfer: Hombre 0.5
Hombre is a collection of PD tools which aims at file tranfer especially between lower spec Amigas - for example a vanilla A500 - a Windows PC. The programs support different transfer methods (Floppydisk, RS232 or parallel cable connections).
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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29.Aug.2007
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Amiga Inc.: Fran Dramis joins the advisory board
Amiga Inc. announces the obligation of the former BellSouth manager Fran Dramis to Amiga Inc.'s Advisory Board. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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29.Aug.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Article database update
Press release The article database of the Amiga Future homepage has seen a comprehensive update. By now you can read over 2000 articles online in the article database. Roughly 150 of these are in English language.
The German FAQ has been included in the article database as well. The FAQ contains more than 200 submissions.
We are looking for German and English articles to extend the article database even more. There were so many websites offering reviews and workshops. Lots of them have disappeared. We would like to republish them.
Have you made a page which isn't online anymore or have you written articles yourself? Then please contact the editorial office of the Amiga Future.
In the meanwhile the preview of the Amiga Future issue 68 went online. This issue is going to be released on 5th September as a German and English edition. We ask all users interested to order as soon as possible.
Dealers wanting to offer this mag to their customers should contact the editorial office of the Amiga Future as soon as possible. (snx)
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