06.Nov.2005
Amigaworld.net (Web page)
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AmigaOS 4: Support for sound card Terratec Phase 22
As Davy Wentzler announces, the Envy24HT-5.5-AHI-driver now supports the sound card Terratec Phase 22, too.
The card possesses both analog and digital stereo inputs and outputs, as well as MIDI-in and -out. The new driver version should be available in OS4Depot before long. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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06.Nov.2005
Amigaworld.net (Web page)
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Browser: Status update for Paihia development
Under the title link, a status update for the development status of Paihia was published, a browser planned for all Amiga systems.
Reportedly, the CSS engine is currently as good as done and is checked using the W3C test suite. The language parts of EcmaScript are also complete, whereas the object library is not, yet. The Document Object Model in Version Level 3, on the other hand, is implemented only to 20%.
Reportedly, all this and the source code of the Paihia Web-Engine requires less than 700 KB uncompressed, and is compiled by Visual Studio to a binary file that is only around 300 KB in size.
Grande Paihia should become a modern, small, fast and portable web browser, which fully supports XML, HTML 4, CSS 2.1, DOM Level 3 and EcmaScript 3. The browser, according to the author, is written from scratch and is based on no existing web software. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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06.Nov.2005
ANN (Web page)
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MorphOS: Descent:Freespace 2 ported (SDL version)
Michal 'kiero' Wozniak has adapted Descent:Freespace 2 to MorphOS. The port is based on the SDL version by Taylor Richards.
System requirements:
- MorphOS 1.4.x
- 3D drivers
- powersdl.library
- 256 MB RAM
- Radeon graphics card (recommended)
- Original version of Descent:Freespace 2 (3 CD's)
Limitations:
- Small graphical errors can appear (especially in fog)
- No network support
- Mods were not tested
- Some keyboard commands possibly do not work correctly; should you come across such keys or key combinations, you can allocate the affected commands to other inputs via the settings (F2)
Installation:
For installation with the accompanying script, you need the original version of the game with 3 CD's. For this, copy the files from the MorphOS archive into the directory in which the game should be installed. Afterwards, start the installation script.
Download: Freespace2.lha (1.7 MB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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05.Nov.2005
Michael Suther, Webmaster amigalon5.de (ANF)
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amigalon5.de: Amiga link list
Some time ago amigalon5.de set up a top list for Amiga sites with legal and serious content. Everybody running an Amiga website may register - no matter whether it's a fan site, a retailer site, a developers site or a forum.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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05.Nov.2005
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: RockBEAT 1.2.1
RockBEAT is a simple software drum machine for AmigaOS 4 by James Carroll. It is a tool for musicians that allows you to create drumming tracks.
It can create multiple tracks, each one being 4x 4/4 measures with 16th notes. You can save individual tracks as WAV files, or the whole thing as one big song. You can drop in your own 16 Bit 44100 Hz PCM WAV samples in the drumsamples folder if you like.
Version 1.2.1 fixes an important bug. The WAV files that were generated by RockBEAT had an incorrect header value.
The demo is restricted to 10 minutes. If you like it, you can purchase a keyfile from the author for 15 US-Dollar. (snx)
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05.Nov.2005
Grzegorz Kraszewski (e-mail)
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MorphOS: DigiFilter 1.0
Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski has released DigiFilter 1.0 today - a tool for designing digital FIR filters ("finite impulse response").
Unlike other applications limited to typical lowpass, highpass,
bandpass and bandstop frequency responses, or limited set of frequency
points, DigiFilter features graphical frequency response editor.
The program uses windowing design technique with rectangle, triangle, Blackman and Kaiser windows up to 2048 taps.
Designed responses may be stored to file and loaded later. Set of tap multipliers for a designed filter may be saved to a text file as a set of floating point numbers.
Download: digifilter-1.0.lha (53 KB) (snx)
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05.Nov.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)
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WinUAE: Games frontend Lemonade 0.9.8 public beta
Lemon Amiga has released a public beta of Lemonade, a new Windows based frontend for WinUAE. Lemonade allows both newcomers and veterans of Amiga emulation to play games more comfortable than ever before - no more setting up configurations, each game is pre-configured.
Lemonade's main features include:
- Games Encyclopedia - Play games at the click of a button, save high scores, view game notes and cheats and more.
- Games Scanner - Scans your Amiga collection for any recognised game files and automatically add them to the encyclopedia.
- Easy to setup and use - Everything is designed to be as comfortable to use as possible.
- Pre-written configurations for Amiga 500, 600, 1200 and CD32 models.
- Custom configuration manager - Import your own WinUAE configurations.
- Emulator Quickstart - Start anything in WinUAE in seconds.
(snx)
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04.Nov.2005
amiga.org (Webseite)
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CommodoreTalk.com: New forum for Commodore and Amiga fans
Under commodoretalk.com there is a new, English forum for
Commodore- and Amiga fans.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Nov.2005
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Issue 57 (November/December 2005) published
Some topics of the current issue:
- Apache for Amiga
- MorphOS on PowerUP
- Amiga Forever 2005 Premium Edition
- Wild Flyin (with interview)
- Battle of Wesnot
- Turson
- TroikaNG
- Amiga 1200 on car
- Games Convention
- Programmer-Workshop
Full versions on the CD:
- MediaPoint
- XiPaint
- Med Soundstudio 1.03c
- Bandit Mania
- Boppin
- Tomcat
- Willy Castle Dreams
- Winning Post
- Technology 2
- Psycho Squares
- Desert Apache
You can get the Amiga Future directly under the title link as well as at
APC&TCP and diverse Amiga dealers. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.Nov.2005
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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Feelin: Demonstration videos to alphablending and XML support
Olivier Laviale has published two short movies about his Open-source project Feelin
which demonstrate the alphablending feature
and the XML supprt.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Nov.2005
Amiga Future (homepage)
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Event: Photos of Alchimie 5 (France)
Under the title link you will find photos of the Alchimie 5 which was held from 29th to 31th of Oktober in Tain l'Hermitage (France). At the event, spreaded over the system, among other things Mac OS and Linux were present next to AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS (Foto) . (snx) (Translation: ts)
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03.Nov.2005
ANN (homepage)
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Amiga user's map of the world based on Frappr
Under the title link amiga users of all variants can register themselves on a map of the world based on Google Maps. The system, where Frappr is based on, does not work with amiga browsers. The registration of not present cities can be applied to Frappr with the information of the degree of longitude and latitude. (snx) (Translation: ts)
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02.Nov.2005
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Event: TV report about the Belgian Commodore show online
The TV report about the Belgian Commodore show (amiga-news.de reported), that has been produced by the local TV station Ring-TV in Brussels, is now available online as well. Its length is 2:06 minutes.
Download: Default.wmv (16 MB) (snx)
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02.Nov.2005
OS-News (Webseite)
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Taking OS features for granted: A comparison between RISC OS and AmigaOS
At the title link, Chris Williams continues his comparison between RISC OS and AmigaOS. Following the 'political' view of the 1st part, the author is looking at the operating systems' features now. (snx)
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02.Nov.2005
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles at the Obligement website (French)
The following articles have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the previous two monthes:
- Amiga and MorphOS news of september/october 2005
- Interview with Frédéric Imbert (retailler "Axe-Z")
- Interview with Nicolas Det (MorphOS developer)
- Review of Monkey Island 3
- Review of Foobillard
- Review of Hu-Go
- Tutorial: how to use XAD and Voodoo-X
- Tutorial: upload to Aminet (update)
- Tutorial: TVPaint - creation of an electric socket
- Article about the Sony AIBO ERS-7
- Article about HTTP codes
- The Amiga quizz
(snx)
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31.Oct.2005
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MorphOS: Virtual Grand Prix 2 (Update)
Paolo 'the Alien' Cattani and Alassoft ported Virtual Grand Prix 2 to MorphOS. The full MorphOS version is now available for download free of charge for personal use, as a thank you to the whole MorphOS community.
The MorphOS version has been made possible thanks to a free ODW development system from Genesi/Freescale. It requires MorphOS 1.4.5, the 3D Update and a supported gfx board.
Virtual Grand Prix 2 is a modern open-wheeled racecar simulator by Paolo Cattani and his staff at Alas Soft. It is the sequel of the original Virtual Grand Prix developed for the Amiga range of computers.
VGP2 uses industrial standards for the simulation of the mechanical components of the car, thus achieving a very high degree of realism in the handling of the virtual one-seater.
The MorphOS version of Virtual Grand Prix 2 is free for personal use and can be downloaded from the title link. However, if you think that the software deserves it, you can make a small donation for it. According to the authors, you can consider it as a kind of "sequel-ware" - i.e. if they collect some money, they might port any further development of the game or sequels to MorphOS as well.
Update: (19:00, 01.11.05, snx)
Andrea Maniero points out that the MorphOS version is compatible with additional tracks that have been created for the Mac and Win versions (you just need to edit the VGP2/config/circuiti.config file accordingly), and with the update pack that gives names, models and textures from the real 2004 F1 championship.
The additional packs can be found at the official VGP2 website. For further information, you can also check the old threads in the RaceSimCentral VGP2 forum. (snx)
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31.Oct.2005
Duke (ANF)
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Gamedatabase "Amiga Games That Weren't" launched
The Gamedatabase "Amiga Games That Weren't" is now avalaible.
Aim of this page is, similar the older page
Games That Weren't 64
carry informationen and if possible providing downloads of never released
Amiga-games.
The first entry is Son Shu Shi
, a Jump'n'Run like Super Wonderboy. Enabled was this by a friend of the
coder and Software Preservation Society
(Disk Mastering) and Codetapper (WHDLoad-Install). (snx) (Translation: aj)
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31.Oct.2005
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Event: Picture of the belgian Commodore-Show
Linked to this header are pictures of the belgian Commodore-Show, happened
on last sunday in Taverne Schettenberg in Affligem.
The local Brussels TV channel Ring TV
and the belgian newspaper "Het Nieuwsblad"
were on site. (snx)
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31.Oct.2005
Golem.de (Webseite)
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Golem.de: Report of ScummVM 0.8.0 mentioned AmigaOS 4
With the header "ScummVM 0.8.0 - Monkey Island for PSP, PS2 and
AmigaOS 4" reports Golem.de about the up to date version of the
Interpreter for LucasArts-Games, which includes a better game support and
a better gui.
(snx) (Translation: aj)
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30.Oct.2005
Pegasos.org (Web page)
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Pegasos: Rescue CD Mupper 1.0 Xtreme Makeover Edition
The rescue CD Mupper for the Pegasos is now available in Version 1.0 as "Xtreme Makeover Edition".
In addition to the supported filesystems FAT, VFAT, ReiserFS, XFS, EXT3 and SFS, the contained programs meanwhile comprise, apart from Parted and Midnight Commander, X.org, Mozilla Firefox, QTParted, GTK2+ toolkits, QT and the complete GCC, too, for instance.
Moreover, the Kudzu Hardware Detection and WiFi support for suitable PCI cards based on Atmel, MadWifi and Prism chips are found on the CD. Mupper is based on the Gentoo-Linux 2.6.13 kernel.
Should you like Mupper, you can grant the author, Mikael Karlsson, a small donation via PayPal.
Download: mupper-v1.0.iso (331 MB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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30.Oct.2005
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Cheats Database revised extensively
The German Amiga Cheats Database was completely revised in structure and visuals, whereby a simpler usability was achieved. Currently, cheats for over 2500 games are found here. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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30.Oct.2005
Holger Kremss (ANF)
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Emulator : German language DLL for WinUAE 1.1.1
Dr. Creep from the "German Amiga Community" Forum has created a German language DLL for WinUAE 1.1.1.
Direct download: WinUAE_German(1.1.1.0).rar (20 KB) (cg) (Translation: cad)
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30.Oct.2005
Alfred Faust (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Work on BarsnPipes port started
Alfred Faust, responsible for further development of the well-known MIDI sequencer BarsnPipes, has been provided a free µA1 motherboard by Hyperion in the meantime.
Meanwhile, work was started on a port of the program, whose progress will be reported at this place. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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30.Oct.2005
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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3D Demo Object for Blender: Gingerbread man with bones (update)
Carsten Siegner has created a demo object for the 3D renderer Blender, which illustrates how bones (so-called fittings) are built into the gingerbread man from the Blender tutorial.
In addition to other diverse platforms, Blender is also available as a port for MorphOS.
Using the bones, you can animate the gingerbread man arbitrarily freely. In the existing demo object, only bones for arms and legs are available, however more - for the movement of the head, for instance - can be added.
The object does not possess textures yet, since it should primarily illustrate the integration of the bones.
Download: Blender-3D-demo.lha (28 KB)
Update: (10:22, 30.10.05, snx)
The related instructions in the original tutorial also exist in German. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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