17.Sep.2006
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MorphOS: Nebulus clone Tower Toppler
Herbert "Hak" Klackl has ported "Tower Toppler" to MorphOS, an SDL-based clone of the jump'n run classic Nebulus. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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17.Sep.2006
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GuruMeditation sponsors OS4 developers
The Swedish dealer GuruMeditation donates an AmigaOne XE to the AmigaOS 4 developer Álmos Rajnai. Rajnai is responsible for the JIT 68k emulator (Petunia) of OS4 and worked with an Amiga 4000 until now.
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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17.Sep.2006
amiga-hardware.com (ANF)
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Encyclopedia: Big Book of Amiga Hardware under new direction
Press release: The Big Book of Amiga Hardware, probably the biggest Amiga hardware reference on the web, changes its owner. Ian Chapman has given the project over to "Amiga Future" and Mario Misic, he stated personal reasons as reason for this move.
The page amiga-hardware.com will continue to exist, but will no longer be maintained; the new URL is hardware.amigafuture.de. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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17.Sep.2006
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MorphOS: Demo version of HyperCannon (update)
Kelly Samel is making available a new demo version of his shooter HyperCannon. HyperCannon will be distributed as freeware now, contrary to the original planning, those who would like to support further development can grant the author a donation per Paypal.
Update: (18.9.2006, 15:30, cg)
In the meantime, a new binary is available, in which some graphics errors were corrected. The file must be copied to the HyperCannon directory.
hyperfix07fb.lha (128 KB) (cg) (Translation: cad)
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17.Sep.2006
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Construction Kit: Creating a spider with Blender 3D
Carsten Siegner has released a construction kit for creating a spider with the program Blender 3D. Through this, anyone can create his/her own spider using a multitude of meta objects (example).
Download: Spinne.lha (803 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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17.Sep.2006
Martin Merz (ANF)
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AISS - Amiga Image Storage System 3.1
At the title link, version 3.1 of the Amiga Image Storage System (AISS) is available. The software is a system to store, access and maintain toolbar images under AmigaOS.
For using AISS 3.x, the Powericons system is recommended. If you still prefer Coloricons please use the special installation script in the 'Glowicons' drawer of the archive (untested).
Features:
- More than 400 image sets (over 1400 single pictures)
- 24 bit PNG images with 8 bit alpha channel
- Extensive HTML documentation
- Printable PDF preview of the images
New in version 3.1:
- New and reworked images
- Small listview images (16x16)
- Archive and script to update AISS
For further information about AISS please visit the Masonicons homepage at the title link or join the Masonicons newsletter. (snx)
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17.Sep.2006
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Event: Photos from Big Bash 4
Subsequently, you can find photos by various participants of Big Bash 4, which took place in Peterborough, Britian yesterday:
Oliver Hannaford-Day's photos
Jerry Goulet's gallery
Paul Hovell's pictures (snx) (Translation: cad)
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17.Sep.2006
Martin Henke (ANF)
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Windows: Update to the starter software for the broadcast "Neues"
Martin Henke's starter software for the Real stream of the 3sat broadcast "Neues" has experienced an update to version 1.3.3.
The update had become necessary since the server.txt file, which was introduced with version 1.3, was not loaded, and changes to the broadcast data and the program were therefore no longer possible (error message: "Die Datei 'Sendungsdaten.zip' wurde nicht gefunden").
Download: StartNeues.zip (3.5 MB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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15.Sep.2006
Pegasos.org (Webseite)
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Genesi: Further Efika photos
Under the title link Genesi added further photos of the Efika-board to its gallery.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Sep.2006
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Big Bash 4: Video and audio streams
The organizers of the British Big Bash 4 offer video and audio streams. The video stream requires a player which supports Nullsoft Video (NSV) as well as the VP6.1-Codec (MPlayer, WinAmp).
Video stream: http://bigbash.amigaworld.net:8000/;stream.nsv
Audio stream (modem user): http://amigaworld.net:8000/listen.pls
Audio stream (broadband): http://amigaworld.net:8002/listen.pls
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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15.Sep.2006
Stefan Haubenthal (ANF)
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MorphOS: Tron clone GLTron now with music support
Stefan Haubenthal`s port of the Tron clone GLTron now plays the music belonging to the game with the help of
AmnetRadio and the corresponding plugin (modplayer.lha).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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14.Sep.2006
amigafuture.de (Homepage)
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MorphOS: Status-Updates for HyperCannon and Aqua
The MorphOS-version of the point'n click-adventure Aqua is soon available for free download. Furthermore a new demo version of the shoot'em ups HyperCannon will be released which will offer three game environments divided into 24 levels.
The author Kelly Samel has established a Paypal account, so you can make a small donation for the further development of these projects. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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14.Sep.2006
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Amiga Inc.: Bill McEwen answers Questions from Users
Bill McEwen has answered the questions sent by the amiga.org-readers community. You can find the whole interview under the title link, a German translation will follow shortly. (cg) (Translation: ts)
[News message: 14. Sep. 2006, 01:41] [Comments: 0]
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14.Sep.2006
amigaworld.net (website)
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7zUI - Graphical User Interface for 7z-Archives
7zUI is a MUI-based user interface for 7z-archives which don't need external archiving tools. Currently only the archive types "single coder" or "packet stream" are supported.
(cg) (Translation: tz)
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14.Sep.2006
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osnews.com: AROS - The Last Train to Amiga-Neverlandd
Within a competition, where readers can introduce their "favourite" alternative operating system, an article about the open source clone AROS was published at osnews.com. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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13.Sep.2006
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PPC hardware: Troika unveils detailed specifications for the "Amy'05"
Troika announced the detailed specification of the Amy'05 in two press releases at amigaworld.net (1, 2):
The used CPU will be an IBM 750GL(800 MHz, 1 MB L2 cache), which will be soldered directly to the motherboard. The 800 MHz version offers teh best price/performance ratio, but the board might be used with cpus up to GHz. The processor and case fans will be driven temperature dependent.
The Tundra TSI107 will be used as northbridge. One of the twopci slots is clocked at 66 MHz and intened to house teh gfx card. That slot is connected by a bridge chip the TSI107 system bus(33 Mhz).
The Southbridge will be an AMD Geode CS5536, which will be connected by a bridge chip (PLX technology PCI 6150) to the system bus, too. properties of the Geode CS5536:
- AC97 Codec interface
- A single channel IDE port
- An additional 16C550 UART
- Real time Clock and CMOS RAM
- Additional USB 2.0 ports
- PC 82XX legacy timers
The AC97 codec will be, as announced already, an AD1888 by Analog Devices.
Additionally the motherboard will have a so called "Geekport" whichis an 8 bit interface for e.g. custom or Amiga specific expansions. This port will sport the following features:
- memory mapped
- provides a basic I/O port
- can generate interrupts
- provides user defined I/O
A (non working) prototype of that motherboards will be shown coming weekend at the BigBash 4, England. According to the developer minor issues are resolved currently and a first very limited production will be started soon to do intensive hardware tests and to adopt OS4 to the board. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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13.Sep.2006
amigaworld.net (website)
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Emulator: PSP-UAE 0.55
PSP-UAE is a port of the well known Amiga emulator E-UAE for Sony's portable game console PSP. New in version 0.55:
- Added some more Joystick mapping options. You can now use any button to control Amiga joystick 0
- Changed all sceCtrlReadBufferPositive to sceCtrlPeekBufferPositive. This should speed things up a little, because sceCtrlReadBufferPositive always waits for vsync
- Fixed a "bug" that caused the PSP to crash if you tried to exit using the home button
- Added Bilinear filtering when zoom is turned on
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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12.Sep.2006
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: DVD plugin for DvPlayer
Andrea "afxgroup" Palmatè has published a plugin for the movie player DvPlayer, which is based on libdvdcss and therefore can play encrypted DVDs.
The plugin replaces the DVD plugin which comes with the DvPlayer. DVD menues are not yet supported by DvPlayer.
Download: DvPlayerPlugin-LibDVDCSS.lzh ( KB)
(cg) (Translation: iw)
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12.Sep.2006
aros-exec.org (Webseite)
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AROS: Bounty for MorphUp porting
The 45th "Bounty" projetct of Team AROS aims at porting the packet manager MorphUp for AROS. (cg) (Translation: iw)
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12.Sep.2006
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MorphOS: Tron clone gltron 0.70
Stefan Haubenthal has ported the Tron clone GLtron for MorphOS; sound effects and background music are not yet supported in the up-to-date version. (cg) (Translation: iw)
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11.Sep.2006
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MorphOS: SDL-Game C-Dogs 0.3 and X-pired 1.22
Herbert "HAK" Klackl has two SDL-based games for MorphOS ported:
C-Dogs
is a Shoot'em Up, which has beside the single player mode a multi player
mode for two player. X-pired
is a action puzzle where the player must find the way out of a maze. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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11.Sep.2006
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Chip-manufactor Freescale just before a takeover by Investmentcompany
A consortium of investmentcompanies will manifestly takeover the
american chip-manufactor Freescale for roundly 16 billion
US-Dollar.
Motorola's former Chipdivision Freescale is one of the both leading
manufactors of the PowerPC-CPUs. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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11.Sep.2006
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Big Bash 4: IRC-Session with the Frieden-Brothers
The organizer of the english "Big Bash 4" (16. September, Peterborough)
notify, that Hans-Joerg and/or Thomas Frieden will give a IRC-interview
at 3:00pm localtime.
Detailed information about the IRC-channel will be shown shortly on the
related BB4-Webpage
Subpage. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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11.Sep.2006
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Today 14 years ago: AGA-Chipset celebrates premiere
Today 14 years ago, at 11.Sep. 1992, presente Commodore Business Machines
on the World of Commodore in Pasadena, Califonia, the AGA-Chipset.
The US-Hardware-Manufactor refered this as the imported technical
attainment since the start of the Amiga-productionline 1985.
The AGA-Chipset was ready for the market on the following December on a
Amiga 4000. At the same time the AmigaOS 3.0 was presented. (nba) (Translation: aj)
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11.Sep.2006
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Aminet-Uploads until 10.09.2006
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
CTorrent-mos.lha comm/net 109K MOS Small BitTorrent Client with CTCS Suppor
Epistula_German.lha comm/net 3K GEN German catalog file for Epistula
MakeHTMLMap.lha comm/www 1.5M OS3 The Gallery/Onlineshop Creator for Amiga
c64tools_aos4.lha dev/cross 1.4M OS4 Covert Bitops C64 Tools
revbump.lha dev/misc 41K VAR A revision bumper with extra fields.
QuickNet_help.txt docs/help 4K GEN Quicknet network card instructions
DC2Lvl-EMine14.lha game/data 279K GEN 99 levels for Diamond Caves II
Swapper_Newlevels.lha game/think 4K GEN New levels for Swapper
SView5.lha gfx/misc 2.4M VAR SView5 Image Viewing/Processing Package
cnetdevice-1.9beta1.lha hard/drivr 180K OS3 PCMCIA Network Card driver
FMGPUCCRBRR_aos4.lha hard/misc 12K OS4 Make your own Retro Replay ROM
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 181K OS3 Emerson Arcadia 2001 emulator
exo20b4_aos4.lha misc/emu 733K OS4 Cruncher for 8bit computers w/ 6502 CPUs
goatninja_aos4.lha mus/misc 21K OS4 Conv. Goat Tracker songs to Ninja Tracke
siddump_aos4.lha mus/misc 42K OS4 Print SID-chip/note data from a .SID-fil
MorphosGirl.png pix/back 594K GEN MorphOS Wallpaper Girl
akPNG-dt.lha util/dtype 209K VAR akPNG-dt V45.52 (PNG, 68000-060/MOS)
pcx_dt_os4.lha util/dtype 20K OS4 PCX picture datatype
ExtraLib.lha util/libs 332K OS3 Dynamic buffer system + simple strings
westwoodtool.lha util/libs 13K OS3 Library to manage CPS/VCN/VMP PC/Amiga
shorten_os4.lha util/pack 866K OS4 Fast, low complexity waveform coder
UnCPS-AGA.lha util/pack 19K OS3 Tools to UNPACK/PACK/VIEW CPS/CMP/VCN/VM
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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11.Sep.2006
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 10.09.2006
Uploads on os4depot.net since our last report:
envy24_ahi.lha dri/aud 14kb Envy24 driver
jsi-tfb.lha uti/mis 291kb The Fart Button
cowsnbubbles.lha dem/mag 3Mb Cows 'n' Bubbles by Nukleus
dev-handler.lha dri/han 19kb Un*x like raw device access handler
shorten.lha aud/mis 866kb fast, low complexity waveform coder (i.e
epistula_german.lha net/cha 3kb German catalog file for Epistula
siddump.lha aud/mis 42kb Output SID-chip & note data out of a .SI
pcx_dt.lha dat/ima 19kb PCX picture datatype
c64tools.lha dev/cro 1Mb Covert Bitops C64 Tools
exo20b4.lha emu/uti 733kb A cruncher for 8-bit computers using 650
goatninja.lha aud/mis 20kb Convert Goat Tracker 1.x songs to Ninja
fmgpuccrbrr.lha uti/har 12kb Make your own Retro Replay ROM
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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11.Sep.2006
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AROS-Archives: Uploads until 10.09.2006
Uploads on AROS-Archives since our last report:
lunapaint_v023.tar.bz2 gra/edi 65kb Graphics program similar to TVPaint on A
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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10.Sep.2006
Markus Weiss (ANF)
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AROS: Bounty for native Pegasos 2 port
The 44th "bounty" project from Team AROS aims at porting the operating system to Pegasos 2. (cg) (Translation: cad)
[News message: 10. Sep. 2006, 15:56] [Comments: 0]
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