10.Jun.2005
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MorphOS: Software-News until 10.06.05
Mac-Emulator: BasiliskII 0.9.2
Ilkka Lehtoranta has published a new version of the 68k-Macintosh-emulator Basilisk II.
New in version 0.9.2:
- Can create hardfiles in GUI
- Can quit emulator at anytime ("emergency quit")
- Optimized speed
- Added frameskip option
Link: Homepage
Download: BasiliskII.lha (460 KB)
My Traceroute
My Traceroute is a CLI-based network tool that unifies the features of
Traceroute and Ping.
Download: mtr-morphos.tar.gz (160 KB)
OpenSSH 3.9p1
OpenSSH which is a Telnet-/SSH-client is now available in version 3.9p1.
A hack which fixed a bug when changing the size of the window was now removed because
it is not needed any longer because of the new ixemul.library.
Link: Download site
Download: OpenSSH-3.9p1-ttyfix.lha (3.6 MB)
Blanky 1.5
Blanky is a screen saver with DMPS support.
Link: Homepage
Download: Only direct from the homepage (120 KB)
Password management: Ling 1.4
Ling is a database where you can save different passwords. All passwords are encoded with
a BlowFish-CBC-algorythm before they are saved in the database. (screenshot).
Link: Hompage
Download: Only direct from the homepage (530 KB)
CManager 34.2
CManager written by Alfonso Ranieri is a book mark and address managament.
Link: Homepage
Download: Only direct from the homepage (850 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Jun.2005
heise.de (website)
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BeOS successor Zeta launched
Yellowtab which bought a licence from the current owner Palm for the BeOS sources as well as
the right of further development some time ago has announced the start of production
for the official BeOS successor called "Zeta".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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08.Jun.2005
[ujb] (ANF)
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Pegasos: ODW distributed by Directron, price drop
As Genesi announces in their latest press release (title link) the
Open Desktop Workstation (ODW) is now assembled and distributed by Directron.
The device revision is slightly changed and the price has been dropped. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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08.Jun.2005
Heise Newsticker (ANF)
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Heise: IBM shows Linux workstation with CELL CPU
IBM will show a Linux workstation powered by the CELL processor at this year's
Linux Tag (22nd/25th June 2005) in Karlsruhe.
It is yet not known if it will be a tower or a desktop, just recently IBM has shown a prototype of a CELL based
blade server. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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08.Jun.2005
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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GAUHPIL Database: Amiga-User-List now with Address Details
As announced one week ago, the Amiga-User-List has now been extended for address details.
For this purpose, the list of countries is additionally devided up into federal states for Austria,
Germany and the United States of America. For entries that have already been registered for these
countries until now, the country has to be selected again on the page "Update entry", to be listed
in the correct state in the Amiga-User-List. Details about the street, postal code and city can be
entered on a new page.
What is the GAUHPIL?
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a public MySQL based database
created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll. It contains website addresses of Amiga users, that can
be questioned by continent and country. Additionally, it features a flexible search function.
Currently, the GAUHPIL lists 686 users from 38 countries.
What is the Amiga-User-List?
Since May 2005, the GAUHPIL database shows all registered users, but only for other registered
users that have to be logged in. A personal homepage is no longer required for registration.
The new "Amiga-User-List" is not limited to users with homepage. After registering and filling
in name and country, one can immediately browse the new "Amiga-User-List". 99 users from 15
countries have already registered and are automatically shown in the "Amiga-User-List".
(ps)
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07.Jun.2005
(ANF)
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MorphOS: BitTorrent 4.1.1
A MorphOS port of the P2P client BitTorrent 4.1.1 by Sigbjørn 'CISC' Skjæret is now available. The client
is not available for download but spread by the BitTorrent network. To get the file an according P2P tool, like e. g.
MLdonkey, is required. (cg)
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07.Jun.2005
amigaworld.net (ANF)
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amigaworld.net collects questions for Hyperion
Hyperion Entertainment agreed to answer to 20 questions by amigaworld.net readers. You may add your question(s) until Sunday, June the 12th
by the title link, the amigaworld.net team will chose the best 20 and forward them to Hyperion. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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04.Jun.2005
MorphZone (website)
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Genesi: relaunch of upgrade program
Genesi prepares the relaunch of the promised upgrade program for Pegasos I boards. Buyers who are the first owners of such boards may exchange it when paying 200 Euro + p&p with an Pegasos II board including a G4 processor.
Requirements:
- You bought the board and you are the first owner of the board
- The Pegasos I and the 200 Euro have to be sent first before the new board will be delivered
- The costs for the delivery are paid by the customer
- This offer comes directly from Genesi and is not placed in association with retailers
- Should you want to make use of this upgrade offer please send an e-mail to sales@pegasosppc.com until June, 30th 2005
- Please mention in this e-mail the serial number of your board, too, please
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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01.Jun.2005
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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Amiga-User-List: GAUHPIL Database completely translated to Spanish
The Spanish translation by Dámaso Domínguez has been completed and both lists, the GAUHPIL and the "Amiga-User-List" are now available in English, German and Spanish.
Furthermore, the introduction of additional address information is prepared. This function
will be activated as soon as the selection of U.S. states has been implemented.
What is the GAUHPIL?
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a public MySQL based database
created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll. It contains website addresses of Amiga users, that can
be questioned by continent and country. Additionally, it features a flexible search function.
Currently, the GAUHPIL lists 690 users from 38 countries.
What is the Amiga-User-List?
Since May 2005, the GAUHPIL database shows all registered users, but only for other registered
users that have to be logged in. A personal homepage is no longer required for registration.
The new "Amiga-User-List" is not limited to users with homepage. After registering and filling
in name and country, one can immediately browse the new "Amiga-User-List".
92 users have already registered and are automatically shown in the "Amiga-User-List". (snx)
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01.Jun.2005
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Software news until 30-05-2005
Meridian 2.17
Meridian is a kind of virtual hotkey system using "mouse drawn symbols", to which specific actions can be associated.
Link: Homepage
Download: meridian.lha (352 KB) (Readme)
MMKeyboard 3.12
MMKeyboard allows to use Windows keyboards for Amiga compatible systems. Driver issues are not existing - a little commodity activates all "non standard"
keys at every keyboard.
Link: Homepage
Download: mmkeyboard.lha (550 KB) (Readme)
playOGG 2.6
The program playOGG by Lorence Lombardo is for playing audio files in OGG Vorbis, MP3, RA, SID and more formats. The program may be launched either from the
Workbench or from the CLI.
Link: Homepage
Download: playOGG.lha (1 MB) (Readme) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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01.Jun.2005
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MorphOS: Software-News until 30.05.2005
powersdl.library 11.1
The powersdl.library is the port of the SDL package, which is used by many game ports. Changes in version 11.1:
- Several fixes and optimizations to masking routines
- Support for analog joysticks
- Added mute option to window menu
- Fixed problem with little endian (byte swapped) high colour modes
- Fixed window resizing bug (Pixel32)
- Loads of small bug fixes to main library and sublibraries
- Added separate SDL Preferences program
- German catalog, French catalog updated
Link: Homepage
Download: powersdl.lha (774 KB)
logTool 1.4
logTool (formerly kown as "anaLOGuer") is a little program which filters useful information from the debug log of
MorphOS and shows the information as colour coded text (screenshot).
As source the ramdebug, serial output and log files are supported. The PowerTerm.mcc file from the
MUICON package is required.
Link: Homepage
Download: logtool.lha (36 KB)
Meridian 2.17
Meridian is a kind of virtual hotkey system using "mouse drawn symbols", to which specific actions can be associated.
Link: Homepage
Download: meridian.lha (352 KB) (Readme)
MMKeyboard 3.12
MMKeyboard allows to use Windows keyboards for Amiga compatible systems. Driver issues are not existing - a little commodity activates all "non standard"
keys at every keyboard.
Link: Homepage
Download: mmkeyboard.lha (550 KB) (Readme) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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31.May.2005
(ANF)
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The "father" of the Amiga Jay Glenn Miner became 73 years today
Jay Glenn Miner was born on May the 31st 1932 in Prescott, Arizona. He is said to be the father of the Amiga, because he was the original Amiga development team leader and cofounder of Amiga Corp. in Los Gatos.
Jay Glenn Miner passed away on June the 20th 1994 in Mountain View, California due to renal failure.
There are some biographies at:
http://www.amition.de/geschichte8284.html
http://www.zock.com/8-Bit/D_Miner.HTML
http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~mheine/Jay_Miner.html (ps) (Translation: ub)
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31.May.2005
TGD (ANF)
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Stock market software: Prerelease of Brokerage-It!
The prerelease of Brokerage-It!, a universal and compact stock market and asset management software based on Rebol/View, is now available for download following the title link.
Brokerage-It! has an intuitive and userfriendly interface and allows an easy and efficient management of your assets.
Minimum requirements for using Brokerage-It! are an Amiga with 68060/50-MHz processor, 32 MB RAM as well as an according REBOL/View suite from REBOL Technologies.
The application is also usable on every other platform running REBOL/Vies (AmigaOS4 / MorphOS / Amithlon / Windows / Linux). It has been developed and testet with REBOL/View 1.2.1.1.1 running on AmigaOS/68k.
Beside Brokerage-It! there are some more REBOL based applications and small games available at the website. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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31.May.2005
Rupert 'naTmeg' Hausberger (e-mail)
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SimpleCam, CanonToolBox, minad und nzbDirect ported to AmigaOS
Rupert 'naTmeg' Hausberger has ported his MorphOS programs SimpleCam, CanonToolBox, minad and nzbDirect to AmigaOS 3.x. Also for BullDog there is
a port under way but it still runs not stable yet and thus, is not released yet. Therefore nzbDirect is currently only of poor benefit.
SimpleCam
SimpleCam is a tool to quickly get stuff from your digicam. It can preview the objects either as thumbnails or as a listtree.
Features:
- Support many cameras (Please refer to the orginal libptp2-documentation)
- Thumbnail preview/select
- Multiselected download
Download: simplecam-amigaos3.lha (43 KB)
CanonToolBox
CanonToolBox is a programm to remotely control your Canon digicam.
Features:
- Full control over the remote functionality
- Taking pictures as .jpg
- Taking videos of unlimited length as .yuv
- Setting of all known device properties
- Multithreaded design
- Log-system
Download: canontoolbox-amigaos3.lha (95 KB)
minad
minad is a simple autodoc-reader.
Features:
- Auto-grouping of most common AutoDocs
- Search function
- Filter function
- Directory ride
- Fast
Download: minad-amigaos3.lha (19 KB)
nzbDirect
nzbDirect is a programm to search and downlaod nzb-files using WWW-search engines.
Supported engines:
- alt.binaries.nl (free)
- nzb.eweka.nl (free)
Features:
- Most functions from the Web-interface
- Browsing
- Can directly import to BullDog
Download: nzbdirect-amigaos3.lha (107 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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30.May.2005
Amiga Future (website)
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MorphOS: SDLBasic ported
Ilkka Lehtoranta has ported SDLBasic (screenshot) to MorphOS.
SDLbasic is a BASIC interpreter which has been created with "the minds eye to the old and glory AMOS" for developing games. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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