26.Oct.2006
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Custom chips: Clone-A news
Press release:
The prototype of our Clone-A project - a re-implementation of the Amiga-chipset with modern technology - has been demostrated at the AmiWest show last weekend in Sacramento, California. Many visitors followed our request to bring along disks and programs that put the compatibility of our chipset to the test. None of the programs were a problem for Clone-A. We're especially proud that a previously unpublished demo works fine with Clone-A. According to the author, it does not work properly on the emulator UAE. Special thanks for this go to Christian Herden who brought the demo to the Amiwest show.
Sound-magician Chris Hülsbeck approved of the exact audio playback of Clone-A. Even complicated music routines like the 7-voice title track of Turrican II and the unconventionally programmed ingame-sounds of Apidya were convincing to the ears of the master.
from left to right: Oliver Achten, Jens Schönfeld, Chris Hülsbeck, Christian Herden
Many users have requested Clone-A to be a PCI card for the current PPC boards on the market. As part of the Efika developer program, we offered to develop Clone-A into a PCI card that works with Efika and other PPC boards by BPlan. Today, our offer has been rejected.
Genesi's rejection will have no influence on further development of Clone-A. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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26.Oct.2006
Mirko Naumann (ANF)
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Genesi: OpenFirmware is supporting Marvell's Discovery V now
Genesi is announcing in a press release, that the company owned OpenFirmware-implementation was licensed to Marvell and will be used at "development boards" with Marvell's northbridge Discovery V. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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26.Oct.2006
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Veranstaltung: Report from the AmiWest
Steven Solie resumes his impressions from the AmiWest (October 22, California) under the title link. The main items in brief:
The announced special guest was Bill McEwen from Amiga Inc., who would bring a prototype of a ppc mainboard. But McEwen had to cancel his appearance in the last minute, as his son was injured during a hokey match.
The author himself had a sample of Troika's PPC-motherboard "Panda", which should have been functional in theory. But Solie didn't want to take a risk and he will try the hardware in a more relaxed environment, therefore functional tests were not carried out. According to Solie Hyperion has already received Panda motherboards, and an external company was charged with the redesign of the licensed hardware.
Richard Drummond represented Hyperion and showed the AmigaOS 4-port of the strategy game Gorky 17.
A port of the astronomy software Digital Universe for AmigaOS 4 is in work, the latest beta version was presented at the exhibition.
The Amiga legend Carl Sassenrath was present and apparently very interested in the actual Amiga situation. Meanwhile Sassenrath is discussing his visions around the topic Amiga at the amigaworld.net in certain threads. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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25.Oct.2006
Pegasos.org (website)
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Reminder: Efika developer program
Until and including October the 31st project proposals may be sumbitted at the title link to apply for a Freescale sponsored Efika board.
Accepted contenders will receive an Efika board with 128 MB RAM.
Already registered participants are urgetly requested to confirm their postal address. Without a valid address boards cannot be send. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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25.Oct.2006
Schlonz (ANF)
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MorphOS: Demo version of Pixel 1.0 Beta 6 build 558
Already since October the 15 there is the demo version 1.0 Beta 6 build 558 of the graphic program Pixel (former Pixel 32) for MorphOS available at the title link. (snx) (Translation: un)
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25.Oct.2006
amigafuture.de (website)
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WinUAE: AmiKit 1.2.3
For AmiKit, a complete distribution for WinUAE users, there is an liegt update to version 1.2.3 available. The update must be fetched with the software's integrated Live Update function. New in this version:
- ADDED: French catalogs for AmiStart and BoingBall by Eric Luczyszyn
- UPDATED: AmiKit - ScreenMode AmiKit 1.3
- UPDATED: Meridian 2.22
- UPDATED: MMKeyboard 3.23
- UPDATED: MultiRen 1.63
- UPDATED: PlayOGG 5.6a
- UPDATED: SmartFileSystem 1.263
- UPDATED: TheMPegEncGUI 2.63
- UPDATED: VICE 1.20 (11-Oct-2006)
- REVERTED: Jabberwocky 1.5.2 (the newer v1.6 and v1.7b1 crash on exit)
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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25.Oct.2006
(ANF)
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Java becomes full open source in 2007
As heise.de reports Sun will provide all sources of the Java distributions Java SE and Java ME during the first quarter 2007 under some open source license. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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25.Oct.2006
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MorphOS: Beta version of an EHCI driver (USB2)
Nicolas Det has released a first beta version of an EHCI driver, which enables teh usage of USB2 controllers with MorphOS. The ehciusb.device has to be copied to MOSSYS:Devs/USBHardware, then the driver is available at Poseidon's preferences at the "Hardware" menu.
The author gives no support, use is at own risk. First user reports are available at the (German) pegasosforum.de. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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24.Oct.2006
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Software updates by OnyxSoft (AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS)
OnyxSoft have released updates of some of their programs:
AmigaOS 4: Annotate 2.5
Annotate is a text editor, originally done by Doug Bakewell in 1993, which has been improved by OnyxSoft. The list of changes since the last version are to obtain from the readme.
AmigaOS 4, MorphOS: AllKeys 2.0
The Commodity Allkeys enables the use of all rawkeys (incl. wultimedia keys) and mouse buttons as Hotkeys. Version 2.0 comes with a graphical interface, also mouse wheel movements can be simulated now.
AmigaOS 3: MultiRen 1.63
MultiRen is a strongly improved rename command with GUI which is most useful for renaming huge file sets. Version 1.63 is further bug fixed.r
AmigaOS 3: Quicksketch 1.03
With Quicksketch short notes and sketches can be made and stored.
AmigaOS 3: TheMPegEncGUI 2.63
TheMPegEncGUI is a graphical user interface for several console based MP3 encoder. In Version 2.63 a small bug was removed. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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23.Oct.2006
Heinz-Raphael Reinke (ANF)
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Developerenvironment: New AROS-DevPak for AmiDevCpp
AmiDevCpp is a on wx-Dev-C++ based C/C++ Developerenvironment
for Windows, which can generate executables for MS Windows, AmigaOS 3/4,
MorphOS and AROS/x86.
Heinz Raphael Reinke provide a new "DevPak", which includes the actual
AROS-SDK. The installation of the DevPak can be done with the internal
Package-Manager of AmiDevCpp's.
Download: Aros_SDK.DevPak (4,4 MB) (cg) (Translation: aj)
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23.Oct.2006
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: Status-Update of WinUAE 1.3.3
Linked to the header is a overview of the Version 1.3.3 of the
Amiga-Emulator WinUAE, which will be released in November. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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23.Oct.2006
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Event: Picture of the AmiWest
The AmiWest happend in Sacramento(USA) at 21. October, in the meantime
are picture of the event are available.
severin.f2s.com/Photos/AmiWest-2006
shop.amigakit.com/catalog/amiwest.php
amigaweb.net (cg) (Translation: aj)
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23.Oct.2006
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Event: Picture of the L'Alchimie 6
Of the "l'Alchimie 6", which happend last weekend in Tain l'hermitage
(France), are now picture available:
gilles.mathevet.free.fr/alchimie6.html
afle.free.fr/Images/alchimie6/index.html (cg) (Translation: aj)
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23.Oct.2006
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 22.10.2006
Uploads on os4depot.net since our last report:
php-src.tgz dev/lan 4Mb PHP 4.3.0 rc2 (sources)
php5-src.tgz dev/lan 8Mb PHP 5.1.1 for apache 1.3.34 / OS4 (sourc
apache-src.tgz net/ser 11Mb Apache 1.3.34 PHP 5.1.1 (sources)
easytag-src.tgz aud/edi 1Mb EasyTag 1.1 for Cygnix (sources)
perl.tar.bz2 dev/lan 10Mb Perl 5.8.5 AmigaOS4
cinepaint_cygnix-src.tgz gra/edi 10Mb Cinepaint 0.21.1 alpha for Cygnix (sourc
amaya-src.tgz net/bro 12Mb Amaya 8.8.5 for Cygnix (sources)
mysql-client-src.tgz net/mis 5Mb MySQL 3.23.58 (sources)
xfce_cygnix-src.tgz uti/fil 4Mb Xfce 3.8.16 alpha for Cygnix (sources)
vim_cygnix-src.tgz uti/tex 7Mb vim 7.0 alpha for Cygnix (sources)
bitmask.lha dev/lib 29kb Simple and efficient bitmask collision d
guilib.lha dev/lib 1Mb A very simple GUI framework for SDL
sdl_blitpool.lha dev/lib 407kb Blit/Fill operation pool with optimizer
gimp_cygnix-src.tgz gra/edi 15Mb Gimp 1.2.5 alpha for Cygnix (sources)
lightning.lha dem/mis 7Mb A lightning graphics demo with some soun
noddingchod.lha dem/mis 158kb A basic SDL demo
phire.lha dem/mis 210kb An SDL particle-based flame effect
sdl_fire.lha dem/mis 161kb An SDL Fireworks demo
bouncing.lha dev/exa 429kb A SDL example with a bouncing penguin
colormouse.lha dev/exa 235kb One way to implement color mouse cursors
aedgui.lha dev/lib 4Mb A cross platform GUI C++ GUI library
newvox.lha dem/mis 158kb An SDL voxel landscape
sierp.lha dem/mis 154kb A small SDL gfx demo
stars.lha dem/mis 158kb A rotating starfield
warp.lha dem/mis 249kb A realtime picture 'gooing' SDL demo.
water.lha dem/mis 195kb A realtime SDL water effect.
xflame.lha dem/mis 161kb The classic fire effect, now through SDL
ballfield.lha dem/sce 425kb A goodlooking SDL Amiga demo style ballf
curvetest.lha dev/exa 470kb Spline, Bezier and Hemite SDL examples
vistk.lha dev/exa 335kb VisTk - the Visualize ToolKit Example(!)
bindata.lha dev/uti 5kb Converts raw binary contents to into C s
smoothscroll.lha dev/uti 266kb A smooth subpixel SDL/GL(!!!) scroller/m
dumpmpeg.lha gra/con 296kb A simple program to dump the frames of M
xtopng.lha gra/con 379kb A general-purpose image converter based
photocrop.lha gra/edi 325kb Crop and Resize images easilly.
sdlcalc.lha uti/sci 461kb An advanced calculator
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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23.Oct.2006
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Emulator: PSP-UAE 0.60
PSP-UAE is a port of the known Amiga-Emulators E-UAE for Sonys
portable PSP. Changes in Version 0.60:
- new autoframeskip logic with fps limiting for both PAL and NTSC
- real 4 channel stereo
- Added new Menu User Interface (Menu Graphics by The Chaos Engine (from our forums))
- Immediate Blits (Helps with compatability)
- Blitter Cycle Exact (Helps with compatability)
- High Density...
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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23.Oct.2006
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Aminet-Uploads until 22.10.2006
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
MarranoFTP.lha comm/net 30K ARO A Very marrano FTP Client
A71Mail.lha comm/www 19K GEN Email Form multilanguage written in php
bouncing.lha demo/misc 429K OS4 A SDL example with a bouncing penguin
colormouse.lha demo/misc 236K OS4 How to to use color mouse cursors with S
lightning.lha demo/misc 7.4M OS4 A graphics demo with some sound effects
noddingchod.lha demo/misc 159K OS4 A basic SDL demo
phire.lha demo/misc 211K OS4 An SDL particle-based flame effect
sdl_fire.lha demo/misc 161K OS4 An SDL Fireworks demo
DevKitARM_mos.tgz dev/cross 26M MOS Nintendo DS development kit
ext2fs_0.25.lha disk/misc 76K VAR Second Extended FileSystem (EXT2) driver
minerunner18.lha game/jump 366K OS3 Arcade like Loderunner, 1-4 Players
monsters10aga.lha game/shoot 758K OS3 Multitasking WizardOfWor, 1-4 Players
poweroids13.lha game/shoot 333K OS3 Arcade game like Asteroids, 1-4 Players
stardefender11.lha game/shoot 286K OS3 Arcade classic, runs in multitasking
zerberk14.lha game/shoot 110K OS3 Arcade game like Berzerk, 1-4 Players
swapper_newlevels2.lha game/think 2K GEN Swapper New Levels 2
SafeKraker.lha game/wb 37K OS3 Try to find the secret code!
Simonize.lha game/wb 36K OS3 Recreate the pattern created by computer
S_Tiles.lha game/wb 37K OS3 Try to solve this sliding-tile puzzle!
mijfif.lha gfx/show 66K VAR JFIF,BMP,ILBM,ZX.SCR viewer
Prism2SP.lha hard/drivr 14K GEN Prism2.device spanish documentation
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 202K OS3 Emerson Arcadia 2001 emulator
playOGG.lha mus/play 1.2M OS3 multi format sound player.
IconBeFast.lha util/boot 159K OS3 patch for faster icons & color mapping,
isomount124.lha util/rexx 6K GEN mount disk images (amiga,atari,mac,pc,is
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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22.Oct.2006
Amiga.org (Web page)
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DiscreetFX would like to buy Amiga Inc.
DiscreetFX, a USA company for visual special effects, discloses, under the title link on its web page, that reportedly, it has sent a formal proposal to Amiga Inc. to determine the value of the company, since it wants to take over the company next year - provided that they let themselves be bought. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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22.Oct.2006
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AmiWest: Recordings of banquet speeches
Nicolas Mendoza is making available recordings of banquet speeches from yesterday's "AmiWest" (Sacramento, California) under the title link. The speakers are Jens Schönfeld of Individual Computers as well as Carl Sassenrath, Amiga legend and Rebol-founder. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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22.Oct.2006
Jürgen Weiß alias Evillord68 (ANF)
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Graphics card: New Cybervision 3D's available with warranty
The USA dealer Software Hut has taken over the whole stock of Zorro-based graphics cards of the type "Cybervision 3D" from Eyetech. The cards are in original packaging and tested and are sold with warranty. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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22.Oct.2006
Joerg van de Loo (ANF)
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Text editor: BareED supports Thai language
By the close collaboration with Dr. Lyndon Hill, author of the Linux and Windows text editor Sontana, BareED now also supports Thai text files.
In addition, by implementing the relevant parts of the WTT standard, which is endorsed by the Thai Industrial Standards Institute (TISI), BareED will detect invalid character sequences upon loading TIS-620 encoded text files and while entering characters. The input check can be adjusted by the user to his own taste in three levels, from "Pass Through" over "Basic Check" to "Strict".
Before one can start using BareED as a TIS-620 supporting text editor, the corresponding fonts and keymap are required from Lyndon Hill's website.
Please note, though, that BareED's author, Joerg van de Loo, doesn't speak Thai himself. Therefore he suggests to refer to Lyndon Hill's website or contact him directly in case of questions about using a TIS-620 compatible Amiga environment, including using e-mail. (snx)
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22.Oct.2006
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Event: Photos from the Dutch Retro Game and Computer Show
Under the title link, the Dutch Commodore Gebruikersgroep has published photos of their Retro Game and Computer Show of yesterday. According to the organizers' statements, in addition to a video game web page, various newspapers as well as a local TV and radio station reported, too. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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22.Oct.2006
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morphzone.org temporarily unreachable becaues of domain relocation
The MorphOS portal morphzone.org is temporarily unreachable due to a domain relocation. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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22.Oct.2006
PPCZone (Forum)
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Linux: Use cell as modem
In the forum of PPCZone, English instructions were published under the title link on how one can dial in to the Internet with his/her computer under Linux with a GPRS/UMTS-capable cellular phone. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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21.Oct.2006
aPEX (ANF)
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a1k.org with own IRC channel
Next to the web chat for forum members do the organizers of a1k.org now offer an own IRC channel:
Server: irc.serenity-irc.net
Port: 6667
Channel: #a1k
The a1k.org-Team is looking forward to see many visitors and interesting discussions.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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21.Oct.2006
Heinz-Raphael Reinke (ANF)
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Devoloping environment: AmiDevCpp 0.9.6 (beta version)
The development environment AmiDevCpp by Heinz-Raphael Reinke is now available in version 0.9.6. With the IDE you can create programs for MS Windows, AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS/x86.
In the new version was the Dev-C++ environment replaced by Wx-Dev-C++ which is an advancement of Dev-C++. The new IDE is mainly faster and has fewer bugs as its predecessor and offers a WxWidgets form designer for Windows developers.
The cross compiler and SDKs are compared to version 0.9.5 without changes so that they should work. However, the author suggests to see the whole still as a beta version as there have been no more comprehensive tests yet.
Furthermore, there are more example projects in the examples directory for several platforms. Parts of the documentation in the help directory were revised, too.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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21.Oct.2006
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Official AmigaOS 4 webseite online again: www.amigaos4.com
The official web presence of AmigaOS 4 is online again and can be accessed now via amigaos4.com, too.
As Evert Carton from Hyperion explains in an article at amigaworld.net did the recreation take that long because they wanted to switch to a new content management system - the originally used CMS, he wrote , "failed horribly".
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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20.Oct.2006
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AROS: Nightly Builds for Linux/PPC
Automatically generated Nightly Builds of the open source code operating system AROS (Amiga Research Operating System) are compiled by Markus Weiss at his Pegasos 2 for the hosted use under Linux/PPC, too.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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20.Oct.2006
Markus (Tales of Tamar-Team) (ANF)
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Tales of Tamar: 250.000th visitor wins a game
Press release:
Dear reader,
for other websites surely this is not important. But for us it is a milestone. Soon we will reach the mark of 250.000 visitors and we would like to take this event to present a little gain play.
The 250.000th visitor on tamar.net who will send us the code word first which is to be seen instead of the visitors counter will win a full base set with 150 rounds (half a year of play time). please send the code word with your address to Gewinnspiel@tamar.net.
Tales of Tamar which is an Internet based strategy and role game with unique features is looking forward to your visit.
The ToT-Team
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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20.Oct.2006
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4/X11: Adaption of AmiWM to OS4-Look - Support required
Andrea "afxgroup" Palmate currently tries to adapt the window manager AmiWM to Cygnix which is the X11 enviroment for AmigaOS 4.
In order to adapt the look of AmiWM to the one of AmigaOS 4 Palmate needs support. Because the source code has to be changed interested persons should have some programming knowledge.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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20.Oct.2006
modcast.de (ANF)
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Web-Radio: modcast.de plays Amiga-Mods
modcast.de daily provides a mod sound as Podcast. Besides this all previously published 70 songs are available as radio stream.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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