21.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Obligement: MorphOS-2.0-Review (French)
On the website of the French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement David Brunet has published a review of version 2 of the PowerPC operating system MorphOS.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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21.Jul.2008
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Minimig box: Price anounced
Loriano Pagni has announced the price for his Minimig box. It is 67,45 Pound (about 85 Euro) plus shipping.
Because of the low efforts for the Miming lettering it is included in the price.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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21.Jul.2008
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Event: PowerDev-Meeting in Prague
On the 23./24. August the Czech Pegasos user group (Czech PUG) will organize a PowerDev-Meeting in Prague. Additional to version 2.0 of MorphOS the developer boards with the processors MPC5121E (planned for the "Efika 2") and MPC8610 will be introduced. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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21.Jul.2008
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future Issue 44 (German) online
Press release: The German issue 44 of the Amiga Future is out of stock. Because of that the content of this issue is now available at our website.
Issue 73 has been released recently and is available in our online shop. Currently we're working hard on issue 74. You can order the German and English versions of Issue 73 of Amiga Future in our online shop.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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21.Jul.2008
(ANF)
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MorphOS-website under morphos.net accessable
The official MorphOS-website now is accessable under morphos.net again. The domain which originally was David Gerbers is now Mark "Bigfoot" Olsens who is active MorphOS developer.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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20.Jul.2008
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amiga-news: Poll on advantage newsletters
We have put up a new poll: Would you wish amiga-news.de to submit exclusive advantage offers from companies in the Amiga market to forum members and newsletter recipients, for instance, special offers or special prices on Amiga products? (The data will not be handed over to third parties!)
You can vote here and you can find the results here. Possible answers are "ja" (yes), "nein" (no) and "egal" (no difference).
We look forward to an active participation! (nba) (Translation: cad)
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20.Jul.2008
Bounty-Team (ANF)
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Bounty System opening on pegasosforum.de
After it was decided to launch a bounty system three months ago on pegasosforum.de, first of all, project suggestions were gathered, and then the five most popular bounties were determined by means of a poll. The evaluation of the received votes is now complete and the following bounty projects have been opened up:
- [Bounty #0007]Printing system
- [Bounty #0018]GTK-MUI wrapper
- [Bounty #0006]Spreadsheet
- [Bounty #0014]FTP client with SSL/SFTP/SCP
- [Bounty #0001]Instant Messenger
For every project, there is a support thread in the Bounty-Bay of the Pegasos forum with up-to-date status information like, for example, the state of donations, progress information, milestones reached so far, screenshots as previews of the functions implemented so far, etc.
In addition, with immediate effect, the respective bounty can be donated to via PayPal there. The donated money will be received by the AmigaClub Hamburg registered association and will be kept on the PayPal account until the payment date.
In addition to the bounties already opened, there is the possibility for everyone to suggest so-called "self-bounties." However, for these, some requirements are to be fulfilled, like the payment of a "starting donation" of at least 25 euros, for example. Further details can be gathered from the bounty rules.
Programmers that are interested in the implementation of a bounty are asked to contact the bounty team. This can be carried out via the corresponding support thread in the Bounty-Bay or via E-Mail to bounty-team@amigaclubhamburg.de. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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20.Jul.2008
Jens Bagh (ANF)
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Event: Photos from the LAN party of ACH
On the web page of Amiga Club Hamburg, a short picture report of the club's LAN party from yesterday has been published.
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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19.Jul.2008
(ANF)
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New MorphOS 2.0 screenshot galleries
"jPV" has published some MorphOS 2.0-screenshots which document the installation and his personal setup. You can find further sreenshots in a thread on Morphzone.org.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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19.Jul.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AROS: Status-Update July 2008
On the AROS-website Paolo Besser sum up as usual the latest developments around the open-source operating system AROS.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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19.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: Cinnamon Writer 0.58
Claus Desler's Cinnamon Writer is an SDL-based word processor for AmigaOS 4 (screenshot), aiming to be compact, efficient and to provide the mostly used functions.
New version includes:
- Experimental Printer support
- Experimental Export PDF support
- Improved font handling - support for unlimited fonts
- Increased stability
- Optimized code - CW should now be usable on Amigas with a slow CPU
- Minor GUI changes
Please note that with this version, no fonts are provided. CW uses (all) the fonts in Fonts:_Truetype directory. CW uses Bitstream Vera Sans as default font. If you don’t have this font installed, you can download it from the fonts download area of desler.be.
CW uses truetype fonts, which can be downloaded from the internet (or taken from an old version of CW). If you have installed OWB and the fonts used by OWB, CW should be able to use these fonts.
Printer and PDF export is experimental. You will probably experience artefacts in your PDF documents. Furthermore, the author cannot guarantee that Printer support works since he doesn’t have a printer himself. Printer and PDF support is based on Ghostscript. If you have used command line Ghostscript to print a file, please mail the author the command and a description on the printer used. He will recompile a CW version that is optimized for your printer and return the new version to you.
When visiting desler.be for Cinnamon Writer, please note the possibility of joining the newsletter, to participate in Cinnamon Projects or join to get access to forums. If you like Cinnamon Writer and would you would like to support further development, please consider making a donation. (snx)
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19.Jul.2008
Amiga.org (website)
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Event: Vintage Computer Festival East 5.0 (USA)
The 5th annual Vintage Computer Festival East is being held on Saturday and Sunday, September 13-14, 2008, at the InfoAge Learning Center in Wall Township, New Jersey, USA. Further information is available at the title link. (snx)
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19.Jul.2008
Amigaweb.net (Webseite)
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MorphOS: SDL Game Engine
SDL Game Engine sge2d is a cross-platform 2D-framework for C-programmer under the MIT-licence. Since the snapshot of July 12 also MorphOS is officially listed as a supported build system.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Jul.2008
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Print-magazine: Introduction of Amiga 1200 in Games TM
In issue of July the game magazine Games TM reports about "life and the death of the Amiga 1200" omn four pages. In the next issue of the magazine the Amiga 500 will be introduced.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Jul.2008
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: OpenTTD 0.6.2 Release Candidate #1
OpenTTD is an open-source clone of the well-known PC strategy game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe" from the 90ies with many extensions - among others a network modus, individual graphic sets and over 24 languages. The complete list of changes in version 0.6.2 you can read in the changelog.
The current version should still run under MorphOS 1.4.x (not tested). But according to Christian Rosentreter who compiles the MorphOS version the next versions will require MorphOS 2.0. If anybody wants to use OpenTTD under an earlier MorphOS version will have to compile game for himself. If there really should be a high demand Christian Rosentreter would do it as before. Please give him a feedback.
Furthermore on the website of Christian Rosentreter there is a PayPal button where you can show your appreciation and interest for OpenTTD - because Christian Rosentreter himself have not played this game for years anymore.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jul.2008
hhjoker2 (ANF)
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Production of Minimig-box will start soon
Loriano Pagni has published a video of his Miming box.
You can book the white box under amigarulez@hotmail.com. But the price was still not determined.
If there will be 50 reservations a first limited production will be started.
The Minimig lettering is optional and costs 10 Euro. The lettering is available in the following colours: black, yellow, mauve, orange, silver, gold, red, maroon, blue, green, grey, pink, brown and burgandy. If you send your reservation then please do not forget to write your preferred colour.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jul.2008
Thorsten Mampel (ANF)
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Do it yourself: Efika-Laptop
On the homepage of the Amiga-Club Hamburg Thorsten Mampel has written the history of his self-made Efika-laptop.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jul.2008
Gero Birkenfeld (ANF)
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Image Batcher: Collective editing of picture files
Gero Birkenfeld has published a beta version of Image Batcher, also called iBatch. It is a package which is to make the organization of digital photos more easy with the help of collective renaming and conversions.
The ARexx-script has a graphical user-interface. For conversions the CLI-command ImageConverter (73 KB) written by Thilo Köhler is used which is included in the package. Additionally the author recommends a miniature picture viewer e.g. Thumb written by Thomas Rapp. Furthermore AWNPipe is required for the graphical user-interface.
Download: ibatch.lha (175 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Jul.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Atari-Emulator Hatari 1.0.1
Hatari is a SDL-based Atari ST-emulator (screenshot). The changes can be read in the readme.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 15. Jul. 2008, 16:42] [Comments: 0]
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15.Jul.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Word Me Up XXL: AmigaOS 3 and AROS versions stopped
According to the developers of the arcade puzzle "Word Me Up XXL" on their website the formerly planned ports for AmigaOS 3 and AROS will be not developed further so long. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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15.Jul.2008
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: NetSurf for Cygnix in progress
According to Edgar Schwan under the title link the browser NetSurf can be easily compiled to his AmigaOS-4-X11-environment Cygnix (screenshot). But currently there is not a date of publishing.
Currently NetSurf still misses Javascript but only requires 17 MB memory to start. The file has a size of 14 MB. Supported are:
- HTML 4.01
- XHTML 1.0
- CSS 2.1
- HTTP/1.1
- HTTP-authentication
- PNG and MNG
- Cookies
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Reminder: CommVEx 4 on 26. / 27. July (USA)
On 26. / 27. July the fourth Commodore Vegas Expo will take place in Plaza Hotel & Casino, 1 Main Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
The following models will be presented: PET 4032, VIC-20, C64, Plus/4 and C128D, Amiga 500, Amiga 1200 and AmigaOne. Additionally Michael Battilana (Amiga Forever) will take part. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Jul.2008
Amiga.org (website)
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Open Video Toaster: Instant Bounties
Press release Chicago, Illinois – July 14th, 2008 -- Visual FX company DiscreetFX LLC Inc., in order to stimulate development for the Video Toaster Flyer source code DiscreetFX is launching an Instant Bounty contest. What is an Instant Bounty? This is a bounty that is paid once a programmer has requested and been assigned a programming task for Open Video Toaster.
This does take a little trust on our part since bounties are paid before coding even begins. Programmer past developments and applications will be taken into serious consideration and help gain them approval for OVT Instant Bounties. Programmers should review source code for the bounty in question before applying for consideration. Each development task for OVT will have set guidelines and coding time limits.
The larger goal of this contest is to stimulate development of video editing and video production software for MorphOS, Amiga OS 4.0 & AROS. This also allows us to see which 3rd party developer base is most passionate and serious about bringing their favorite operating system of choice back into the mainstream. Dedication and passion is what will bring Amiga successor operating systems back into relevance not mysterious companies who's true motives are unknown. Once upon a time with Video Toaster the Amiga was king of desktop video and computer assisted video editing. While in today's modern times it can no longer be king it could yet again be one of the many choices customers consider. That at least was the hope and dream we had when Open Video Toaster was launched. If your interested in video editing living again on Amiga OS type systems please donate to one of your favorite operating system bounties. DiscreetFX has already placed a starter donation in each of these bounties. Even if you can only donate a little it will help and you will be named and thanked on the Open Video Toaster website. Donations are paid instantly via Paypal to programmers that are assigned each bounty.
First three of many OVT Instant Bounties are for the Toaster Character Generator:
Port ToasterCG to AROS and remove hardware dependencies. Making CG take advantage of NVIDIA or ATI framebuffer cards is a bonus for the bounty but not required. AROS CG, $100 is already donated by DiscreetFX.
Port ToasterCG to Amiga OS 4.0 and remove hardware dependencies. Making CG take advantage of NVIDIA or ATI framebuffer cards is a bonus for the bounty but not required. OS 4.0 CG, $100 is already donated by DiscreetFX.
Port ToasterCG to MorphOS and remove hardware dependencies. Making CG take advantage of NVIDIA or ATI framebuffer cards is a bonus for the bounty but not required. Morph CG, $100 is already donated by DiscreetFX.
ToasterCG source code is available from the title link. (snx)
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14.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Amiga Forever: Updates and new online forms
According to the Amiga-Forever-Team that several updates were publisehd for the latest emulator package Amiga Forever 2008 which some of the mentioned bugs fixed. These updates can be downloaded in the Amiga-Forever-Player under "Tools/Check for Updates".
Furthermore because of the increased spam-bot-activities the online forms for contacts, support and registrations were changed. These new forms replace the filter which were installed on 18. June and which causede some problems. All those customers who tried to contact us without replay please now try it again.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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individual Computers: New address, Catweasel-Software-Update
Press releaseIn may of this year, we have moved to new premises with more than three times the space that our office in Aachen had to offer. Since we still don't run a retail shop, we have moved to the pictureque area of Simmerath, located in the natural park of the northern Eifel region. With this new location, there's also a change in our shipping partner: Parcels within Germany and the EU are now shipped with DPD.
New drivers for Catweasel MK4: The new drivers V 2.5.0.0 for Windows 2000 and Windows XP (32-bit versions) are fixing a few bugs in handling 5,25 inch drives. The new imagetool V3.1 can now read and write three new formats:
- VersaDOS HD: These disks have been provided by Perfint tech from India. They are used to store medical imaging data. With new, faster computers now being able to retrieve data from older medical equipment, lots of money can be saved, and up-to-date medical service with modern image processing algorithms can be provided at lower cost. We're especially happy about this use case, as it has extremely high value to threshold countries.
- VersaDOS 3HDDI: These disks have been provided to us by Matisa from Switzerland, a company that makes machines for railroad track construction and maintenance. The disk was mangled and obviously written on a very bad drive, but we managed to retrieve enough data for implementing this new format.
- HP4145: This disk was provided to us by Bosch (Hildesheim, Germany), where it is used in semiconductor test-equipment.
Another new feature of the imagetool is the possibility to save d64/d71/d81 images of Commodore disks with additional error information. The automatic recognition of disk formats now gives a list of possible formats instead of stopping at the first positive try, which makes the function a lot more useful. You can find more details in the readme-files of the archive.
New Catweasel MK4 controllers will be back in stock in august of this year. To bridge this bottleneck in supply, we have cleared our safety-stock of Catweasel MK4 controllers. To our knowledge, all pre-orders are served now. Our retail partners are taking orders that will be shipped as soon as the new production run is available.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Jul.2008
PPA (ANF)
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Event: Photos from the British AmigaOS-4.1-demonstration
Chris Young as well as PPA have published photos from the second public demonstration of AmigaOS 4.1 which took place in British Enfield yesterday.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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