09.Mar.2007
Christian Rosentreter (E-Mail)
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Babylon 5: Production observation of "The Lost Tales" (English)
On its website CGSociety.org the Society of Digital Artists observes the production of "Lost Tales" episodes of Babylon 5 which are to be published on DVD and which are about the characters John Sheridan, Elizabeth Lochley and Galen.
On page 2 the father of the serie called Joseph Michael Straczynski remembers the use of an Amiga at the beginning of the serie: "The initial render farm consisted of several Amiga?s linked together with wires that ran through the apartment of the guy who initially did the FX.
The wires also ran through his rabbit cages. Every so often, in the middle of a render, a rabbit would chew through a wire. They would call me to tell me they had a rabbit crash. And now here we are today."
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Mar.2007
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Burning software: Frying Pan 1.2.2
Tomasz 'Error' Wiszkowski has published an update of his CD and DVD burning application Frying Pan. This update fixes few OS4 and Morphos issues:
- Icon launch on MorphOS is fixed
- AmigaOS 4 Final and older drives no longer suffer crashes when disc is ejected
- DOS device pickup has been fixed (AmigaOS 4 Final)
- Freezing when burning files without Read protection bit set
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Mar.2007
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood 2.5 available / Announcement of Hollywood Designer 2.0
Press release Airsoft Softwair are proud to annouce the immediate availability of Hollywood 2.5. This is a major update which brings along many new features and general improvements over Hollywood 2.0. Here is a non-exhaustive list of new features in Hollywood 2.5:
- Hollywood has full ARexx support now
- Create your own ARexx applications with Hollywood!
- Completely new text engine with cool new features
- Support for on-the-fly text formatting like HTML
- Support for new text styles (bordered & shadowed text)
- Scheduler completely rewritten: Now about 15% faster!
- Graphics primitives support anti-aliasing now
- All graphics forms can be drawn with rotation
- New edge and shadow drawing styles
- Support for thick lines and thick shape outlines
- Hollywood can export graphics as PNG with alpha channel now
- Raw alpha channel data can be accessed now
- Support for new sound streaming formats
- Animations with multiple palettes are now supported
- New lightning speed gfx driver for AROS
- Ready for Hollywood Designer 2.0!
- Full control over DOS IO modes
- Cool new example programs
- Standard library set encompasses almost 400 functions now!
- Lots of other changes, optimizations and bug fixes
Hollywood is Airsoft Softwair's ultimate Multimedia experience and a must-have for every Amiga user who wants to use the full power that is in his machine. Hollywood comes on a CD-ROM that contains versions for all Amiga compatible platforms: There are native versions of the program for AmigaOS 3 (m68k), WarpOS (ppc), MorphOS (ppc), AmigaOS 4 (ppc) and even AROS (i386). A download version is also offered. If you order the download version, you will have to download an ISO image which you need to burn on CD-R then. If you already own Hollywood 1.x or Hollywood 2.0, you can buy a discounted upgrade version.
Hollywood is the ultimate bridge between all the different AmigaOS compatible platforms! With Hollywood, you can save programs for all those platforms. You do not have to have AmigaOS 4 or AROS, you can save programs for these platforms also from your AmigaOS 3 installation! Only Hollywood makes it possible. If you want to learn more about Hollywood, please visit the Hollywood product information which also contains a full feature list of Hollywood.
Finally, Hollywood 2.5 is ready for the brand-new Hollywood Designer 2.0, a massive update which will be released in a few days and will take presentation editing software on the Amiga platform to a whole new level. You can already order Hollywood Designer 2.0 now and it will be delivered to you as soon as it is released. In fact, you can save some money if you buy Hollywood 2.5 and Hollywood Designer 2.0 together; just have a look at the order page for available product bundles. Hollywood Designer 2.0 is also available in a download and CD-ROM version.
Join the Multimedia revolution and get your personal copy of Hollywood 2.5 now!
You can get further information on the Airsoft Softwair website under the title link. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Mar.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: CPUTemp.docky 52.8
CPUTemp.docky written by Jörg Strohmayer shows the current CPU temperature in the AmigaOS 4-Dock.
Direct download: CPUTemp_52.8.lha (26 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Mar.2007
Amigaharry (ANF)
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MorphOS: SearchStar 0.77 supports Linux partitions
In version 0.77 the search program SearchStar written by Tom "amigaharry" Duin does not abort any longer if it finds Linux partitions. Additionally now it scans directories much faster.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Mar.2007
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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individual Computers at CeBIT / Clone-A presentation on March 31st
Press release Individual Computers is present at the world's biggest computer fair CeBIT twice this year: Viprinet GmbH show the Multichannel VPN Router. Individual Computers was significantly involved in the development of the router, which lets you bundle up to six physical broadband lines into a single virtual dedicated line. This increases bandwidth, but also increases reliability of your internet connection up to 99.99% annual mean availability - better and cheaper than any regular dedicated line could offer. Viprinet has booth number E48 in hall 14.
We're especially happy to support the new company Commodore with rare units from our retro-computer collection. This includes a PET2001 which is 30 years old this year. Commodore International is at booth number B34 in hall 19.
Our project "Clone-A" will be demonstrated on saturday march 31st, 2007 in Aachen, Germany. We will show the prototype of our Amiga-chipset clone at Schloß Rahe Business Center from 12:00 to 4:00pm. Clone-A will ultimately be put into a single low-cost chip, which can be used in a laptop or desktop computer, but also in smaller mobile units and toys. The chip contains the processor, accelerated graphics and sound. To operate the chip, only a small amount of memory is needed. There's a huge number of free and commercial programs and about 5000 games for the Amiga platform. The games can compete with today's consoles in multimedia presentation and gaming fun.
After a demonstration that we have prepared (about 30 minutes), visitors will have the chance to put Clone-A to the test: We're inviting visitors to bring especially critical software, which will demonstrate the compatibility of Clone-A to a real Amiga. Should you bring a program (floppy disk) that works better on an Amiga 500 with 1MB of chipmem and a 68000 processor at 7 MHz, we will honour your efforts with a voucher for 100 Euro for products out of our portfolio.
There is no entrance fee for Schloß Rahe Business Center, and there's free parking for visitors. (snx)
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09.Mar.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PPC-Hardware: Memory-Benchmarks for SAM440EP (Update)
On the website of the Italian producer ACube benchmarks have been published which are supposed to demonstrate the memory-performance of the announced PPC-motherboard SAM440EP. Benchmarks of the reference designs which SAM440EP is based on are also available.
Memory-Benchmarks for SAM440EP (PDF)
Memory-Benchmarks of reference-designs (PDF)
Update: (09.03.2006, 15:00, cg)
On amigans.net Jörg Strohmayer from the AmigaOS 4-team has published the corresponding benchmark results of his AmigaOne.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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08.Mar.2007
Pegasos.org (website)
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Full Efika Systems are listed at Freescale
Full Efika systems in a steel housing can be ordered via the Freescale website now. You have the choice between an "EFIKA Open Client" (board, power supply, housing, graphics card) or the "EFIKA Open Client Plus" with an additional hard disk. (snx) (Translation: tz)
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08.Mar.2007
Amiga.org (website)
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Article of the Bitmap Brothers (English)
In view of the announced Speedball 2 remake for the PC as well as the death of Richard Joseph Chris Jensen is pointing to an article of the softare company Bitmap Brothers which he has released under the title link last month. Videos of some games are implemented into this English report. (snx) (Translation: tz)
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07.Mar.2007
amigafuture.de (website)
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IRC client: Wookiechat 2.6 Beta 5
James Carroll provides a new beta version of his MUI based IRC client Wookiechat for AmigaOS 3/4. Changes in beta 5:
- BETA 1: Made sure all commands in "Connect Scripts" operate in the right tab when connecting to a few servers simultaneously
- BETA 1: Tab memory and objects used to be freed after closing WookieChat, but now I'm starting to clean up memory as soon as a tab is closed. Very handy on machines with small amounts of RAM (like my 6mb A1200!)
- BETA 1: If Wookie is unable to automatically obtain your own address for use in establishing DCC connections, you can now manually specify an address yourself in the prefs. (Main Settings > DCC)
- BETA 2: Slight modification: "Connect scripts" are executed in the root tab
- BETA 2: When you connect, the "001" server message is displayed in full and in the root tab. This message contains your hostname, or what the IRC server thinks is your hostname
- BETA 2: Added sanity checks to the gethostbyname() calls, so that if your address value is invalid for some reason, it wont crash
- BETA 2: Rejiggered the "close tab" code. It was crashing when closing multiple channels in a particular sequence
- BETA 3: Attempted to fix crashes when doing "cursor up/down" quickly in tabs
- BETA 4: New tab system. Optionally, you can display tab names in a listview under the nicklist, instead of using buttons along the bottom of the window. This system is ideal for users with lots of tabs open. Toggle this setting at "Main Settings > General"
- BETA 4: All info from /whois replies are displayed in the right colour and with «Whois» at the start now
- BETA 4: Wallop messages, usually from server admins talking to each other, are now displayed correctly
- BETA 4: You can comment out lines in your Connect Scripts with ; at the beginning of each line
- BETA 4: Bugfix: No longer crashes if you had more than 40 ignores in your list
- BETA 5: The button-style tabs/listview-style tabs toggling wasnt working properly I'm very sorry for this.. it seems to be working well now
Direct download: wookiechat2_6beta5_7thmarch2007.lha (767 KB) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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07.Mar.2007
amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: Drum computer RockBEAT 2.1
James Carrolls has released an update of his software drum-computer RockBEAT (screen shot, example sound). Changes with version 2.1:
- Made adjustments to calculations for WAV file saving, so hopefully the larger WAV's will load better in HDREC, etc.
- Added a "Copy tracks" function. Copy some or all instrument tracks to a new/different bar. Just perfect when you want to keep the same hihat throughout your song, and you dont want to keep clicking it back up again and again!
- Made a number of improvements for adding new bars
- RockBEAT is now freeware! E-mail me if you want a free personalised keyfile with your name in it
Direct download: RockBEAT2_1.lha (1,6 MB) (read me) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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07.Mar.2007
Paul J. Beel (ANF)
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The AROS Show: AROS status update
Paul Beel briefs up the latest from the AROS world in his blog "The AROS show".
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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07.Mar.2007
Janet Spacey PR
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Commodore announces new computers (update)
At theCeBIT 2007 Commodore Gaming announces a new dimension of gaming PCs "with the highest today available technical gaming specifications". This will initialize the come back of the legend brand Commodore to the world of hardware for computer and console games.
Bala Keilman, CEO at Commodore Gaming, says: "25 years ago
Commodore brought the C64 to the market, the world's most sold computer of teh late 20th century, and defined the fun of computr gaming for millions of people worldwide. Now we are proud and eager to bring back Commodore to the gaming community and to take another important step of history for that brand. We are sure to fullfill all demands to warranty an extraordinary gaming experience."
The new line of game optimized PCs will eb presented to the public at the CeBIT 2007 Hanover on march the 15th in Hannover.
Everyone there will have the opportunity to test the maschines with the latest games and get convinced by the famous features of these high performance maschines.
Commodore Gaming will accompany the market introduction with several more press releases March the 15 and promises the unveilling of some exciting details.
Visit Commodore Gaming at the CeBIT 2007 in Halle 21, booth D08. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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07.Mar.2007
Mario Misic (ANF)
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Hardware encyclopedia: BBoAH with new license
Mario Misic writes: After the official hand over of the BBoAH from Ian Chapman to Mario Misic together with the AmigaFuture, Mario Misic decided to put the entire data of the "Big Book of Amiga Hardware" under the license of the "Creative Commons License" immediately and under exclusion of any commercial usage.
This license has been chosen to exclude any commercial usage of the BBoAH material by third parties and to account for the participation of volunteers and to ensure the continuation of the BBoAH's in its known kind.
The Amiga Future as well as ACP&TCP are currently holding the only written permission to license the BBoAH content commercially. For non commercial usage the entire BBoH data material is available according to the chosen CC licenseg which is available at the BBoAH website in 34 different translations.
All breaches of the CC license will be avenged when the required souce citation is not given properly now, this is especially important for ebay auctions. The change of the license mas made only to ensure the continuation of the "Big Book of Amiga Hardware" in its known kind.
We thank all users for the attention and understanding and are looking forward to a promising BBoH future. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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06.Mar.2007
Duke (ANF)
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Magazine index: Amiga Magazine Rack
The goal of "Amiga Magazine Rack" is to catalog all magazines in which Amiga game tests were published. At the beginning 29703 tests and 21166 scans are available.
The website has a cooperation with the game database Hall of Light so you will get from a game directly to an overview with tests and much more.
You are invited to help closing the existing lacks.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Mar.2007
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: MLdonkey 2.8.3 (experimental version)
Christian Rosentreter has published an update of the Filesharing program MLDonkey. The new version has been still not tested by the author and is supposed to fix a bug that happened if file names contained special characters which the iconv.library uses.
The author is asking for feedback either in the IRC channel #morphos or in the corresponding thread at morphzone.org.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Mar.2007
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Richard Joseph died
Richard Joseph was responsible for several musics of Amiga games and was one of the first who used "real" voices (Mega Lo Mania). He died on Sunday.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Mar.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Chiptune-Tracker: Hively-Tracker 1.3 for AmigaOS 3/4
HivelyTracker is a tracker based on AHX-format (screenshot). In the 90ies AHX was developed to write music titles which are similar to the typical chip sound of SID (sound-chip of the C64) ähneln. Changes since version 1.3:
- Position editor now has indicators so its clear to which channel
each column relates (suggested by syphus)
- If you used ring modulation effects in the right hand parameter
list of an instrument, but not the left, it would try and save
it as an AHX instrument instead of an HVL instrument. Fixed.
(thanks to syphus)
- Added Zap Song/Instrument/Position options (suggested by m0d)
- Added play time indicator (suggested by someone, sorry forgot who)
- You can now copy and paste arbitary regions in the position editor.
(suggested by a couple of people, and I always intended to do it
anyway :)
- "prefs_bg" and "Settings" in skins are now "prefs_os4" and
"Settings_os4" respectively so that the same skin can be used for
both the OS4 and OS3.x versions
- Added some bounds checking to the replayer to avoid weird crashes
- Fixed a couple of small bugs in the replayer (thanks to pieknyman)
- When changing the position during playback, the current position
plays through to the end before jumping to your selected position
(suggested by syphus)
- Some status information which should have been local to each tab
was global. Oops. Fixed now
- Added Ctrl+Tab to jump to the same column in the next channel, and
Shift+Ctrl+Tab to jump to the same column in the previous channel.
(suggested by syphus)
- Added Alt+A to mute all but the current channel (suggested by
syphus)
- Added Alt+Q to mute all channels
- Right clicking on "New Tab" now makes an identical clone of the
current tab
- Added speed multiplier gadget. This is a feature of both AHX and
HVL tunes that was always implimented, but there was no way to
actually set it in hivelytracker until now (oops :)
- Pressing the right mousebutton in the instruments list of the
instruments editor will copy the current instrument to the slot
where you clicked
- Holding control and pressing the right mousebutton on a slot in
the instrument list in the instrument editor will zap that
instrument
- Changed the default gain values when loading in AHX modules and
using stereo mixing. The values before were calculated by
running lots of tunes through the Autogain calculations and
using the lowest values that came out. Well, it was too high, so
now I actually calculated them using actual maths! (thanks again
to pieknyman for finding a tune that clipped)
- Added some more options to the skin system to enable the cool new
"Vintage" theme
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Mar.2007
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: OpenTTD 0.5.0 (final)
OpenTTD is an Open-Source clone of the Microprose classic Transport Tycoon Deluxe. After some beta versions and "Release Candidates" were published the final version 0.5.0 is now available.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Mar.2007
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Aminet-Uploads until 04.03.2007
These are the latest archives which have been added to the Aminet-Uploads:
MUIbase-2.2.lha biz/dbase 2.8M OS3 Programmable relational database with GU
FussballBundesliga.lha biz/misc 27K GEN TurboCalc Spreadsheet Football (german)
LCR-I.lha comm/misc 81K OS3 LeastCostRouter German Internet Provider
LCR-P.lha comm/misc 44K OS3 LeastCostRouter Print-Tool
LCR-T.lha comm/misc 78K OS3 LeastCostRouter German Telefon Provider
LCR.lha comm/misc 198K OS3 LeastCostRouter Suite
Telefon.lha comm/misc 44K OS3 Dials via Speaker+Modem and Send SMS
bbssalvage.lha comm/thor 11K GEN Recover broken database BBS/conferences
A71Mail.lha comm/www 61K GEN Email Form multilanguage written in php
PurpleCow.lzh comm/www 262K OS3 PurpleCow HTTP Daemon
mp3_dec.lha dev/basic 15K OS3 mpega.library devkit for BB, mp3 decoder
SFinfo.lha dev/basic 23K OS3 "sndfile.library" dev kit for Blitz
MCC_BetterStringFr.lha dev/mui 3K GEN MCC BetterString french catalog.
MCC_TextEditorFr.lha dev/mui 4K GEN MCC TextEditor french catalog.
MCC_TheBar-21.2.lha dev/mui 782K VAR TheBar.mcc - The MUI Toolbar custom clas
MCC_TheBar-de.lha dev/mui 20K GEN German locale for MCC_TheBar
Python_Enhancement.lha dev/src 233K OS3 Enhancing Python Code, Classic AMIGAs
amigadocs.lha docs/misc 5.0M GEN TONS of Amiga programming Docs
wesnoth-devel.lha game/strat 65M OS4 Battle for Wesnoth (development version)
lunapaint_v032.tar.gz gfx/edit 380K ARO Graphics program similar to TVPaint
AMIGA-Project1.lha hard/hack 336K GEN A simple kids project for the AMIGA.
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 256K OS3 Arcadia 2001/Interton VC 4000 emulator
AnIdeaOS4plusUAE.lha misc/emu 7K GEN Full software compatibility for OS4/MOS
8svx_comp.lha mus/misc 23K OS3 new 8SVX (de)compressor
ADPCM_dec.lha mus/misc 18K OS3 Decoder for C. Buchner's ADPCM package
EP_ChipTracker.lha mus/play 13K OS3 EaglePlayer "ChipTracker" ext. replayer
EP_QuartetPSG.lha mus/play 10K OS3 EaglePlayer "Quartet PSG" ext. replayer
BareED.lha text/edit 368K OS3 ASCII/TIS-620 editor/text highlighting
CoverBed.lha text/misc 160K OS3 A sophisticated gui to BareEd
BibVision.lha text/show 247K OS4 Bible text viewer for OS4 V1.9
Bekuna.lha util/boot 670K OS3 Welcome and remember program
akPNG-dt.lha util/dtype 207K VAR akPNG-dt (PNG, 68000-060/MOS)
akSVG-dt.lha util/dtype 72K VAR akSVG-dt (SVG [SView], 68000-060)
Aminet-Readme-Creator.lha util/misc 42K OS3 Generates Aminet upload .readme file
ViewBB.lha util/wb 10K OS3 Simple bootblock viewer
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05.Mar.2007
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 04.03.2007
These are the latest uploads which have been added to os4depot.net:
sysvipc.lha dev/lib 125kb SystemV IPC implemementation for AmigaOS
stp.lha gam/act 1Mb Save The Penguins - A shooter
wesnoth-devel.lha gam/str 65Mb Battle for Wesnoth (development version)
wesbench.lha gra/ico 901kb Backdrop + icons for a Wesnoth WorkBench
kgb_arch.lha uti/arc 137kb KGB Archiver console version
diskmaster2.lha uti/fil 282kb DiskMaster2 for OS4
prtman.lha uti/pri 257kb PrintManager for OS4 and OS3
flush.lha uti/scr 0kb Flush all memory with OS4 Final
bibvision.lha uti/tex 247kb Bible Viewer for OS4 v1.9
fuelgauge.lha uti/wor 72kb Volume gauges underneath hard drive icon
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05.Mar.2007
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AROS-Archives: Uploads until 04.03.2007
These are the latest uploads which have been added to AROS-Archives:
lunapaint_v032.tar.gz gra/edi 379kb Graphics program similar to TVPaint on A
wgetgui.src.i386.tar.gz net/mis 24kb GUI for Wget
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05.Mar.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP is looking for a translator
Press release For a bigger, longer lasting Amiga-project APC&TCP is looking for a translator German -> English.
Requirements:
- Your mother tongue muste be English
- Very good English orthography
- You have to understand German texts very well
- Basic knowledge concerning Amiga (You should understand what you translate!)
- Fast work (generally the translations must be done very promptly)
You do not have to work for free. But we cannot give you much money.
Interested users please write a mail to Andreas@apc-tcp.de in German language. The response may last for a while. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Mar.2007
Rudolph Riedel (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: DiskMaster 2.7beta11
Rudolph Riedel has made availabe another beta version of his file manager DiskMaster 2.7 in OS4Depot.
Changes since 2.7beta10:
- Despite some corrections for the 68k version, it still does not run perfectly, unfortunately
- The calculation for adjusting the standard window to different screen resolutions was improved
- The string gadget in the command window now displays either the configuration file with which DM2 was launched, or "S:DiskMaster2.prefs"
- Correction: When using volume names like "Sys:" instead of device names like "DH0:", an error in the rename function had caused the renamed entry to be removed from the list.
- Correction: Shortcut resolution did not work
- A couple of chapters in DiskMaster2.guide were updated
Download: diskmaster2.lha (282 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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04.Mar.2007
Amigaworld.net (Web page)
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Magazine: The Crypt - Issue 48
The 48th issue of the English magazine The Crypt includes, among other things, the concluding part of Barry Walker's Amiga hardware project "The Event Detector" as well as a report on the newly-founded Lincolnshire Amiga Group.
Furthermore, in the remaining, non-Amiga-based region of the magazine, Deluxe PocMon is introduced, Edgar Vidgal's port of his Amiga game Deluxe PacMan. He had already brought Deluxe Galaga to the Windows platform before, which can be purchased there under the name of Warblade. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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04.Mar.2007
der_letzte_Amiganer (ANF)
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Live webcam from the Computer&VideoBörse Bremen
der_letzte_Amiganer writes: "We are now online with our webcam. Axel Knabe wanted to pop in today with his Efikas.
Greetings Jörg" (cg) (Translation: cad)
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04.Mar.2007
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Database: MUIbase 2.2
Steffen Gutmann is making available a new version of his relational, programmable database MUIbase. Changes since the last release:
- First official Linux and Windows versions which are fully functional
and compatible to the Amiga version
- GlowIcon set by Pascal Marcelin
- French catalog translation by Alexandre Balaban
- New formats HH:MM:SS, MM:SS, and HH:MM for displaying and entering of
time values
- Support of time values larger than 23:59:59
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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04.Mar.2007
Amigaworld.net (Web page)
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Thor: ARexx script BBSsalvage.br 1.3
BBSsalvage.br is an ARexx script for the offline reader Thor, which attempts to recover damaged databases.
The script was created after an error had occurred at the author, which could not be repaired by ValidateThor, and which led to crash when trying to open a discussion.
Improvements in version 1.3:
- Fix a bug introduced in v1.2 (or was it v1.1 ?)
where a missing "end" instruction in the main
loop made the script unusable
- BBSsalvage.br will now warn you if Thor is
running (Thor must not be running), and if
BBSread was previously used and still loaded
in memory
- BBSsalvage.br will no more verbose that a message
marked as deleted is skipped (this is to save
the size of the output from results which are not
very informative anyway)
- The script will now warn if a text line length
in the body of a message is longer than 32767
characters (Due to a bug in the Visual Options-Messages Links, Thor may crash the system while trying to display a message containing a too long
unwrapped line)
- The BBS list order and the conference list
order are now preserved
- The "read" (or "unread") status of the messages
is now preserved too
(snx) (Translation: cad)
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04.Mar.2007
HelmutH (ANF)
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Amiga-Resistance: FAQ collection expanded
The Amiga-Resistance team is trying to compile a FAQ collection in order to bring together as much of the knowledge about the Amiga as possible, and is calling for participation in this.
To the 41 existing articles of the FAQ collection, which was published for the first time on January 25th, the following 25 are added since our last report:
- ArtEffect FAQ
- Amiga Writer FAQ
- PageStream FAQ
- StormC FAQ
- NetConnect FAQ
- Draw Studio FAQ
- Tornado 3D FAQ
- ImageFX FAQ
- Tableau FAQ
- Genesis FAQ
- STFax Pro FAQ
- VideoFX FAQ
- X-DVE FAQ
- FontMachine FAQ
- OSXL FAQ
- iFusion Installation
- OS3.9 Installation Tips
- OS3.9 FAQ on Compatibility and Patches
- OS3.9 FAQ on Mass Storage
- OS3.9 FAQ on Undocumented Features
- OS3.9 FAQ on Genesis, AmiDock, Datatypes, ...
- OS3.9 FAQ on External Software
- OS3.9 Keyboard Shortcuts
- WarpUP Problem Solutions
- Abbreviations
Permission for publishing on the Amiga-Resistance page was given by the respective authors via E-Mail. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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03.Mar.2007
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Emulation: WinUAE 1.4.0 published
Today version 1.4.0 of the Amiga-Emulator WinUAE has been published. Now a CDTV is also supported.
New features:
- CDTV emulation, including CD controller, internal SRAM and 64KB SRAM expansion memory card support
- More compatible SPTI CD32/CDTV CD support
- Advanced Chipset configuration. Miscellaneous model specific hardware configuration entries like real time clock chip type, CIA-A TOD clock source, RAMSEY, FAT GARY register emulation
- Rewritten harddisk configuration system. No more lost hardfile or virtual directory configuration entries if path was missing
- A3000/A4000 motherboard RAM bank support
- Added Arcadia bios rom type selection
- New Windows Vista-style application icon added
- Small CIA and custom chip emulation updates
Bugs fixed:
- FPU emulation floating point to integer conversion fixed (proper clamping instead of truncating)
- uaeserial.device compatibility improved
- New serial port detection didn't detect all types of serial ports
- Random sound errors after adjusting sound GUI setting on the fly
- Directory filesystem memory leaks fixed and compatibility improved
- It was not possible to disable keyboard layout C after enabling it
- Sound panel settings were not always enabled correctly
- Command line parameter -datapath didn't work
- Disk image drag and drop didn't work
- Quickstart panel disk swapping is properly delayed again
- Some Picasso96 display modes were not available
- bsdsocket freeze fix (Aminetradio)
- Windows driver Catweasel support works again
- "Faster RTG"-mode lockups fixed
- External drive sound selection GUI didn't work if fdrawcmd.sys was not installed
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Mar.2007
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WHDLoad: New archives until 03.03.2007
With WHDLoad you can install games and Scene-demos on your harddrive which were originally meant only for use with disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with newwer Amiga types were fixed.
The following installers have been added or improved:
- 02.03.07 improved: Lotus 2 (Magnetic Fields/Gremlin) supports another version, support for NTSC display added (Info)
- 19.02.07 updated: Killing Game Show (Psygnosis) install was corrupt, corrected (Info)
- 17.02.07 improved: Workbench 3.1 (CBM) install script corrected (Info)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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03.Mar.2007
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Battle for Wesnoth 1.3.1 (developer version)
The round based strategy game Battle for Wesnoth has been published as developer version 1.3.1 for AmigaOS 4, too (changelog).
Please note that the last stable version is still always version 1.2.1.
Download: wesnoth-devel.lha (65 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Mar.2007
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Demoscene: Polka Brothers-Website published
Under the title link the last two members of the demoscene group "Polka Brothers", Colin and Slide, have published a website where you can find productions, a memeber list and party photos.
Besides this they will take part in Breakpoint 2007.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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