04.Jan.2007
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AROS: Penguin Command 1.6.10
Matthias Rustler has ported Penguin Command, a slightly modified clone of the game classics Missile Command, for AROS/x86.
Download: penguin-command-aros.zip (1,3 MB) (snx) (Translation: tz)
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04.Jan.2007
Pegasos.org (Wesite)
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The Inquirer: The Amiga is dead. Long live the Amiga!
Together with the release of the final update for AmigaOS 4.0 the news site "The Inquirer" has published an English report of the present situation of the Amiga and its history.
Besides the Commodore Amiga both the AmigaOne and Samantha as well as the Pegasus and the Efika board are mentioned. Furthermore the operating systems MorphOS and AROS. (snx) (Translation: tz)
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04.Jan.2007
Amiga Future (website)
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USB Driver: ArakAttack 1.23
The latest update of the usb driver ArakAttack fixes problems with the UHCI/OHCI (usb 1.x) control short packet transfer.
Download: ArakAttack.lha (172 KB) (snx) (Translation: tz)
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04.Jan.2007
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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Mailbox-Software: CNet Amiga Pro 5.10 available
Already since New Year's Eve Storm's Edge Technologies is offering the version 5.10a of the mailbox software CNet Amiga Pro. Sysops already using version 5.x can get the update free of charge.
Since the acquisition of the program from Todd H. Knight the version 5.10a is meant as the first update after more than ten years, Storm's Edge Technologies claims. However it doesn't offer new features, but it fixes a part of the bugs and security issues of version 5.07. (snx) (Translation: tz)
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03.Jan.2007
amigans.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: Updates of DiskMaster 2, OpenSSH and GNU Make
file manager DiskMaster 2.7 Beta 7
Changes with ethe latest version of Rudolph Riedel's file manager Diskmaster 2:
- Lots of smaller internal changes and fixes
- Removed some more obsolete code
- The Reader has it's own font now and it's fixed-width only
- 'Swap' works again
- 'PrintDir' almost rewritten to take the data from the ListBrowser.gadget lists
- Fix: It must be ActivateLayoutGadget() to activate a gadget in a layout, not ActivateGadget(). Otherwise the layout is not aware that the string-gadget got activated In other words, activating the path-gadgets with the keyboard works properly now
- Fix: the total-amount of bytes in a dir was a low negative number in case there were only dirs displayed
Link: Downloadseite
OpenSSH 4.5p1-2
Steven Solie has compiled OpenSSH for AmigaOS 4. This is a free version of theSSH protocol suite,
which implents secure versionen of the Telnet, rlogin and FTP protocol. Changes with this version 4.5p1-2:
- added missing LICENCE file to distribution archive
- now requires AmigaOS 52.x or higher
- increased default pipe buffer size to 4096 bytes
- fixed progress bar display bug in sftp during 'put'
- added AmigaOS-style version strings to executables
Link: Downloadpage
GNU Make 3.81-5
Steven Solie has relased an update of the GNU make Port for AmigaOS 4.
- now uses case-sensitive comparisons no matter what the underlying file system is capable of for maximum compatibility during porting (thanks Henning Nielsen Lund)
- removed workaround for shell 51.x
- removed support for AmigaOS device names; it is just impossible to parse out targets from device names (thanks Thore Böckelmann)
- now uses getopt() from clib2
- cleaned up Makefile.AmigaOS
Link: Downloadpage (cg) (Translation: ub)
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03.Jan.2007
amigafuture.de (website)
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IRC client: WookieChat 2.4.1 Beta 6
James Carroll provides a new beta version of his MUI based IRC client Wookiechat for AmigaOS 3/4. Changes since the last version:
- Beta 5: No more Server tabs anymore! its still a little buggy, but give it a try anyway
- Beta 5: I'm now compiling with -03. That means optimise for speed. Previously I wasnt optimising on OS4, and only optimising on OS3 for filesize.
- Beta 6: When messaging someone in private, away messages are only displayed once unless they change.
- Beta 6: Dedicated server tabs can disabled/enabled. Configure this setting at:
Main Settings > Servers. Server tabs can be closed now regardless.
- Beta 6: When a person sends you a file with DCC SEND, the file comment field is filled with their nick and IP address, and the network name
- Beta 6: Added a "Hide" menu item, with short cut, for quick iconifying.
Direct download: wookiechat2_4_1beta6_2ndJan2007.lha (783 KB) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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03.Jan.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Picture viewer: PicShow 31.343
Thomas Rapp provides an update of his picture viewer PicShow. Changes with this version:
- Fixed crash when navigation skin does not have an icon.
- Added new parameter SKINBUTTONS to specify the buttons which are contained in the skin picture if the file does not have an icon.
- Updated spanish language files
PicShow is available for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS, WarpOS and PowerUp. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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03.Jan.2007
Uwe Ryssel (ANF)
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Point'n Click Adventures: ScummVM 0.9.1 68k
Uwe Ryssel provides a new AmigaOS 3 version of ScummVM 0.9.1. ScummVM is an interpreter for several graphic adventures, e.g.. 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.
A WarpOS version is currently not doable, since the author's PPC hardware suffers on hardawre flaws. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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01.Jan.2007
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Jump'n Run: First Issue of the Fullversion of "No Buddies Land"
The Maker of Amiga Games that weren't is succeeded to raise the fullversion of the never published Game "No Buddies Land". The Game is as IPF-Images available. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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01.Jan.2007
Brork und Torque (ANF)
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Webpage: Portal AmigaJoker.de redesigned
The AmigaJoker.de Homepage was redesigned. The following notification is as the Webpage totaly in german language.
Pressemitteilung Hallo Amiga-Fans! Ab sofort ist die neue, komplett überarbeitete Homepage "AmigaJoker.de - Das Portal für Amigafans!" online.
Aus dem ehemals sehr stark besuchten Forum wird nun eine Plattform, auf der sich Amigafans so richtig austoben können. Es gibt viele neue Module, die es zu entdecken gilt. Sobald man sich angemeldet hat, hat man sofort Zugriff auf das neue Forum, den Download-Bereich, den Chat und die Bilder- und Video-Galerie.
Schaut doch mal vorbei... wir freuen uns über euren Besuch! Bitte gebt uns Feedback, was ihr von der neuen AmigaJoker.de-Seite haltet (dazu steht eine Umfrage, ein Feedback-Formular, ein Gästebuch sowie eine Shoutbox zur Verfügung)!
Wir wünschen euch einen guten Start ins neue Jahr 2007!
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Brork und Torque
Webmaster of AmigaJoker.de (snx) (Translation: aj)
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01.Jan.2007
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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CD/DVD Writer: Frying Pan 1.0a
Tomasz Wiszkowski released his Version 1.0a of the CD- and DVD-Masteringtools Frying Pan. Please obey the actual Readme-file of this release before installing of the new version.
As example operate the tool now in the background and elaborates when the Gui was closed. Also some features a are not included, which are available in the last version.
The feature which are now exluded and in the next weeks reassembled again are, multisession-ISO's (incl. Session-import), Speedadjustment and support of older and MMC3-incompatible drives.
Changes in version 1.0a:
- Use "Prepare Disc For Write", to prepare rewriteable disc's (not for RAM-Disc's)for writing. Use "Blank" (delete) or "Format" only when you know what this funktion will do.
- click on the Proccess-bar will minimize the Windows (perhaps no function under AROS)
- To activate the Context-Menue click over the Toolbar the right mousebutton to changes the prefs for the Toolbar.
- On the ISO-Creationpages is it possible to changes the Discname with the Pop-up-function. Also the parameters for the ISO-File can be changes here.
- Splitted ISO-Images: Prepartion of the ISO-Images or the transfer of the Disc-contens on the harddisk despite any size; MD5-Checksummen will prevent the burning of a damaged part of a images.
Frying Pan requires MUI including the Classes NList, NListview and NListtree.mcc and AHI. On the linked page is a List whith drives which are - at least with the preversion - working (snx) (Translation: aj)
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31.Dec.2006
Pegasosforum (Web page)
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MorphOS: SteamDraw 0.7R2
Stefan 'Kronos' Kleinheinrich's vector graphics program SteamDraw offers the following improvements in version 0.7R2:
- Point tool for moving individual points (part of the Edit tool)
- Enhancement of the Construct tool for the possibility to create multiple parallel lines
- Help windows can be concealed at launch using tooltypes
- Polygons can now contain infinitely many points
(snx) (Translation: cad)
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31.Dec.2006
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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WinUAE: MP3-encoding with support for multiple processors
Bernd Roesch's winuae_lame for the Amiga emulator WinUAE (starting from version 1.3.4) allows the use of multiple processors and cores when encoding MP3 files. At the bottom of it is the use of the native LAME version for Windows.
Here, each launched winuae_lame process searches for a free processor. Thus, with four processor cores, three of them can create an audio file in MP3 format each, while the fourth continues to be fully available for the Amiga emulation.
Included in the archive is, in addition to the Readme file with the installation instructions, the source code as well. This shows how to query messages of a Windows program under AmigaOS, and can serve as a guideline for other programs with multiple processor support.
But reportedly, instead of using Windows programs, you could also write your own program code in alib.
Version 1.3.4 of WinUAE is required, since only starting from this is it possible to obtain the corresponding Windows path information for an Amiga file name.
It must be pointed out that files within hardfiles cannot be used for this purpose, but Amiga drives are required which can be accessed from the Windows side as well.
The author wishes everyone a happy new year.
Download: winaue_lame1.0.lha (62 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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31.Dec.2006
Amiga Future (Web page)
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Emulation: WinUAE 1.3.4
The Amiga emulator WinUAE is now available in version 1.3.4. Among the improvements are, among other things, a uaeserial.device as well as improvements to the interrupt timing of the custom chips and the emulation of AGA sprites outside the display area. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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30.Dec.2006
amigaharry (ANF)
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MorphOS: SimpleView 1.8f and SearchStar 0.73m
Tom "Amigaharry" Duin makes updates for the image viewer SimpleView and for the search program Searchstar available. The latter one comes now with a simple graphical user interface.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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30.Dec.2006
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AmigaOS 4: audio player TuneNet 0.84.72 (alpha)
Paul Heams released a new version of his music and Internet radio player TuneNet that shall fix among other things problems with the final version of AmigaOS 4.
Direct download: TuneNet08472.lha (600 KB)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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30.Dec.2006
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Commodity: MCP 1.46
Dieter Groppe makes a new version of the commodity and patch collection MCP available.
Direct download: mcp1_46.lha (1,3 MB)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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30.Dec.2006
Power Developer (website)
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Linux: OpenSUSE installation on the Efika
As the OpenSUSE installer doesn't support the Efika board yet Peter Czanik made an English guide available under the title link explaining how experienced Linux users can install this distribution nevertheless.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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30.Dec.2006
Pegasosforum (forum)
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Efika: stream benchmark comparison with Pegasos II and AMCC 440EP
Matthias Münch made stream benchmark results available under the title link to compare the performance of the Efika memory with a Pegasos II/G4 and an AMCC 440EP.
His conclusion: "The Efika board [can] absolutely keep up with desktop boards like the AMCC 440EP (...) in the area performance."
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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30.Dec.2006
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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AmigaOS 4: FinalWriter patch for the Final update
Because the word processor FinalWriter 97 doesn't work anymore under the Final update of AmigaOS 4.0 Peter Gordon wrote a patch as interim solution.
This one was done "quick & dirty" so it should only be used if you do rely on FinalWriter 97 (or another program affected by this - e.g. possibly older versions of GoldED). It is not ecxluded that the patch will cause problems with other programs (e.g. IBrowse).
How it works: The 68k functions AllocMem() and AllocVec() are patched so that these functions make 8 bytes available at the beginning and the end of the buffer. In addition is the size of the allocated memory area at AllocVec() - as under AmigaOS/68k - saved in the four bytes before the affected area.
If you call the patch from the startup-sequence please put "Run >NIL:" before it as the patch can't be finished, otherwise the startup-sequence would stop.
Download: mempatch.lha (1 KB) (snx) (Translation: wk)
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29.Dec.2006
Pegasos.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: libnix-Update
For the MorphOS-SDK there is an update of the statistical GCC library libnix for developers under the title link.
Changes:
- stdio init no longer reads off bounds memory if __stdiowin is set to "" (it's still not valid to do so though (read SAS/C docs))
- strcoll/xfrm won't pull in libauto/external LocaleBase any more
- mbstowcs/wcstombs behaves properly when destination is NULL (they are still dummies though, so don't expect widechar to work)
- no more semaphore lockups that could occur in certain situations (thanks to HAK for finding such a situation)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Dec.2006
german-amiga-community.de (Webseite)
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Adventure: "In Shadow of Time" for free download
The Point'nClick-adventure In Shadow of Time has been now released as free download. Compared with the version published on March this year on the Retro-Classix CD several bugs have been fixed. According to the author for the first time the game can be completely played.
There is also a first update. For further details please have a look at the title link.
ShadowofTime.zip (6,6 MB)
ISoT_update.zip (80 KB)
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29.Dec.2006
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Strategy game Battle for Wesnoth 1.2
Battle for Wesnoth is a round based fantasy strategy game. The AmigaOS 4 port was written by Fredrik Wikstrom. Version 1.2 contains several minor changes. For further details see the Readme.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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29.Dec.2006
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Systempatch 2.98
SystemPatch written by Sante Nocciolino changes diverse operating system routines to increase the performance of computers with newer 68k-processors. The highest speed increase can be gained on 68060-systems but the patch can be applied on all Amigas from a 68020 upwards.
Version 2.98 does not use CPU specific CopyMem-routines anymore because the versions which does not depend on processors are faster.
Direct download: SystemPatch298.lha (80 KB) (Readme)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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29.Dec.2006
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Picture viewer: PicShow 1.31 (31.334)
Thomas Rapp has published an update of his picture viewer PicShow. Changes in this version:
- AmigaOS 4 version fixed to run with the new memory system of Upd. 5
- Printing no longer freezes at the end of the page (called AbortIO although I/O was already done)
- Aborting a print job no longer freezes PicShow until printer.device has finished it's work
- Uses TurboPrint now if installed (no longer prints just a big black square on OS4)
PicShow is available for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS, WarpOS and PowerUp.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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29.Dec.2006
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AmigaOS 4: Directory Opus 4.18.1
Joachim "Zerohero" Birging has published an update for Directory Opus 4 which fixes a bug when extracting archives which has become obviously by the new memory management in AmigaOS 4 Final.
The update only contains the Directory Opus-Binary and requires an installation of Directory Opus 4.18.
Download: DirOpus-Exe.lha (235 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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29.Dec.2006
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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AfA: Second beta version of Zune port AOZ
Bernd Roesch still has published a second beta version.
The new AOZ-promoter can now move tasks which were started by the Shell. If the promoter window is open (Ctrl+Shift+Z) all tasks are displayed which tries to access MUI. So it is easier to find the task name of the program which is to be moved. You have to copy the promoter to the WBStartup folder.
Please take care that you will not move the task ramlib if you want to continue using MUI (otherwise some MUI-programs may crash).
From this version on you can find a FAQ file where it is described how you can continue running programs under Zune (Scalos is the only program which is known).
The installer now copies the MUI classes Speedbar, MCPFrame, Filelist and Hotkeystring. If you have not installed these classes so far and do not require them nevertheless you can accept the corresponding message of the installer - AOZ will be installed correctly.
The repeated drawing has been fixed which mainly slowed down YAM and SimpleMail.
MUIM_Application_NewInput has been introduced as new function which makes other programs working - e.g. Voodoo-X.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Dec.2006
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Cloanto: Disks converting service
Under the title link Cloanto offers a converting service for Amiga disks. Sent disks will be burned on a DVD for a special fee.
The DVD contains the files of the disks as well as ADF-files of the disks and conversions of possible Amiga text files (e.g. FinalWriter, WordWorth) to pure text or Rich-Text-Format.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Dec.2006
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Website: ANN shuts down after 10 years
According to Christian Kemp his news site ANN founded exactly ten years ago as "Amiga Network News" shuts down today. But as archive it is supposed to be continued.
With over 3000 visitors per day ANN was one of the most read Amiga sites. You can get further information why Christian Kemp did finish his project under title link.
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