02.Apr.2005
Andreas Küssner (ANF)
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MorphOS: native versions of MPEG de-/encoders for Wildfire7
"wf_mpeg2decode" and "wf_mpeg2encode" are the MorphOS versions of the free MPEG video loaders and savers that are part of the Wildfire7 distribution.
The two files have to be copied into the directory "system/tools/" in the Wildfire7 main directory. The already existing files have to be replaced with the new ones - the author recommends to create a backup of the old versions first in case problems with the new version should arise.
It cannot be guaranteed that the programs run on all systems, the modules have been tested on a Pegasos 1 G3@600mhz.
Saving of a test animation as MPEG file with the 68k mpegsaver needs 1 minute and 42 seconds (with JIT) while the PPC native version takes 16 seconds.
If there are any questions please contact Andreas Küssner via e-mail. Our thanks go to Oliver Hummel for compiling and doing various tests.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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02.Apr.2005
(ANF)
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Inofficial G-REX PCI homepage updated
Matthias "DJBase" Münch completely reworked the inofficial homepage for the PCI busboard "G-REX PCI" regarding the content.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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01.Apr.2005
Darren Eveland (ANF)
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Remote Desktop Client survey
Please fill out this short survey so we can better understand who is using the Remote Desktop Client for Amiga OS 3.x, 4.x and MorphOS. Any personal information that you choose to supply will be held in strict confidence not given to any 3rd party company. The only information that will be disclosed is statistical information on the number of users of Remote Desktop and what type of computer systems they are using or plan to use (questions 1-7). (snx)
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01.Apr.2005
Dieter Groppé (ANF)
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New version of MCP (Master Control Program) available
Since 31st March the current version 1.44 of the MasterControlProgram - in short: MCP -
is available. Additional to the complete archive there is also an update for version 1.43.
Besides some new and extended functions many bugs have been fixed.
The MCP and its components now are also running under AmigaOS4 but only emulated.
Details to the changes you can get from the history.guide which is available in the
archive.
The complete archive as well as the update for version 1.43 can be downloaded
under the title link under "Amigaminis".
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Apr.2005
anonym (ANF)
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distributed.net: Pegasos Team in Top 100
The Distributed Pegasos Team is on the
100th place of the Team-Charts at RC5-72-competition.
Thanks to all who computed in the team. The next aim, of course, is the Top 10.
(cr) (Translation: dr)
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01.Apr.2005
Martin Wolf (ANF)
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Tales of Tamar: Not enough prospects for "The Great War of Anarrow"
Dear Amiga community, unfortunately there are not enough prospects for our free
action "The great war of Anarrow" (14 at all, 11 Mosianer and 3 Hombres). Therefore
the war will not take place.
But we give a last space of time of one week. If there should be more than
50 persons on each side the war will take place.
We want to invite all interested players to use the shareware option and
to play the game for a while for free.
Greetings,
Wolfen & the ToT-Team (snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Apr.2005
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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MorphOS: SimpleCam 2.0 GPL released
SimpleCam, a program by Rupert Hausberger for downloading photos from a digital camera, has been released for MorphOS in version 2.0.
Changes:
- Totally rewritten from scratch
- New, easier design
- Delete-support added
SimpleCam 2.0, the source code and screenshots can be downloaded from the title link. (snx)
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29.Mar.2005
ANN (website)
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ChocolateCastle: Update to v0.2 / AmigaOS support
ChocolateCastle by Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski is a source code generator for custom BOOPSI and MUI classes. The update to version 0.2 enables BOOPSI class generation and is also able to generate AmigaOS 3.x compatible code as well as mixed (MorphOS/AmigaOS3) code. (snx)
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28.Mar.2005
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Aminet: uploads till March 28th, 2005
Here are the new Aminet uploads since our last news item:
PPaint71_Port.lha biz/cloan 9K Portuguese locale Catalog for Personal Pa
DOpus5661_Port.lha biz/dopus 33K Portuguese Catalogs and buttons for Direc
OpusMPEGAPort.lha biz/dopus 5K Portuguese locale Catalog for OpusMPEGA v
etb.lha biz/misc 81K Extended Trial Balance
showtip.lha biz/patch 7K OS4 ShowTip for SoundFX (SFX)
YAM135_Port.lha comm/mail 9K Portuguese locale Catalog for YAM v1.3.5
AmiTCP_PacketFix.lha comm/tcp 13K AmiTCP/Genesis packet fragmentation fix p
Miami_Port.lha comm/tcp 36K Portuguese locale Catalogs for Miami v3.2
AWeb_Port.lha comm/www 13K Portuguese locale Catalogs for AWeb v3.4
IBrowse_Port.lha comm/www 19K Portuguese locale Catalogs for IBrowse v2
guigfxlib.lha dev/misc 235K Application layer for pixel graphics
renderlib.lha dev/misc 197K Image processing kernel
TransCat_Port.lha dev/misc 4K Portuguese locale Catalog for TransCat v1
ACDPlay16_Port.lha disk/cdrom 4K Portuguese locale Catalog for ACDPlay v1.
GPlayer_Port.lha disk/cdrom 3K Portuguese locale Catalog for GroovyPlaye
MUICD_Port.lha disk/cdrom 6K Portuguese Catalogs for MUI CD Player v1.
Z100_Port.lha disk/misc 4K Portuguese locale Catalog for Z100 v1.5
Pig.lha game/jump 582K Jump around with a pig. SDL example port.
BTCE.lha game/misc 86K Bard's Tale 1/2 Character Editor
lpairs.lha game/think 625K A nice memory-game for OS4, with sources
ltris.lha game/think 1.1M A beautiful Tetris-clone for OS4, with so
Quadromania.lha game/think 297K Nice SDL based board game from ASM softwa
DIYprep.lha gfx/ifx 4K Prepare picture for use with DIYreko
DIYrekoIII.lha gfx/ifx 52K Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
Collector_Port.lha gfx/misc 15K Portuguese locale Catalog for Collector 3
APDF_Port.lha gfx/show 5K Portuguese locale Catalog for APDF v2.2+
Visage_Port.lha gfx/show 4K Portuguese locale Catalog for Visage v39.
Frodo_Port.lha misc/emu 3K Portuguese locale Catalog for Frodo v2.4+
MagiC64_Port.lha misc/emu 5K Portuguese locale Catalog for MagiC64 v1.
Nostalgia.lha misc/emu 341K THE Multi-Emulation system (2.3)
AC97mixer21.lha mus/misc 27K Sound card control program
Pegase_Port.lha mus/misc 3K Portuguese locale Catalog for Pegase v1.4
AMPlifier_Port.lha mus/play 3K Portuguese locale Catalog for AMPlifier v
SongPlayer_Por.lha mus/play 5K Portuguese locale Catalog for SongPlayer
ac-bootpic.lha pix/boot 62K Animated boot picture
ZIP100-250_GI.lha pix/gicon 145K By Raul Silva, the Best GlowIcons for Iom
ZIP100-250_NI.lha pix/icon 173K By Raul Silva, the Best NewIcons for Iome
Wordworth_Port.lha text/edit 13K Portuguese locale Catalogs for Wordworth
Sherman_Port.lha util/blank 4K Portuguese locale Catalog for Sherman Bla
ToolsDaemonPor.lha util/boot 4K Portuguese locale Catalog for ToolsDaemon
MCP132_Port.lha util/cdity 9K Portuguese Catalog for MCP v1.32 Beta 12
wave_dt.lha util/dtype 129K An OS4 native RIFF-WAVE datatype, with so
BoardsLib_Port.lha util/libs 3K Portuguese locale Catalog for Boards.Libr
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 315K Report+ 6.17: Multipurpose utility
limpidclock.lha util/wb 79K Transparent clock / calendar
MrIcon_Port.lha util/wb 2K Portuguese locale Catalog for MrIcon v1.6
Picticon_Port.lha util/wb 3K Portuguese locale Catalog for Picticon v1
SGrab18_Port.lha util/wb 3K Portuguese locale Catalog for SGrab v1.8+
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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26.Mar.2005
ANN (website)
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playOGG: update to version 1.7
The program playOGG by Lorence Lombardo is meant for playback of audio files in (among others) the OGG Vorbis, MP3, RA and SID format. It can be run from the Workbench or via the CLI.
Download: playOGG.lha (471 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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26.Mar.2005
ANN (website)
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Emulator: VisualBoyAdvance 1.7.2 (AmigaOS 4/MorphOS) (update)
Nicolas Mendoza ported version 1.7.2 of the Gameboy emulator VisualBoyAdvance to AmigaOS4. The MorphOS version is done by Christian "Tokai" Rosentreter. Under MorphOS is the powersdl.library additionally needed.
Download:
VisualBoyAdvance-1.7.2-ppc-amigaos-bin.lha (1.4 MB)
VisualBoyAdvance-1.7.2-ppc-amigaos-src.lha (3.9 MB)
visualboyadvance-1.7.2-morphos.lha (460 KB)
Update: (26.03.2005, 15:20, cg)
MorphOS version by Christian Rosentreter added.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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26.Mar.2005
Pegasos forum (website)
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Meridian 2.14 released
The commodity Meridian by Guido Mersmann is available in version 2.14 for AmigaOS 3.0 and MorphOS 1.4.2. The program creates virtual hotkeys by analizing symbols "drawn" with the mouse and then carrying out the according actions.
Download: meridian.lha (352 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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26.Mar.2005
Patrick Wesseling
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Retrogaming Radio: interview with Michele C. Battilana
The English Retrogaming Radio is doing an interview with Michele C. Battilana (Cloanto) about the emulator CD Amiga Forever 6 in their actual 2.5h broadcast. You can winthree copies of AF6.
Download: rgr0305.mp3 (37 MB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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25.Mar.2005
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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Status report: "Die Kleine Gilde II" & SN-archives
Since the last version of the realtime strategy simulation called "Die Kleine Gilde II"
there have been some changes.
For details please have a look at the developer-diary.
The new version of Die Kleine Gilde II is in beta test and will be published in one
or two weeks. If you have suggestions, bug reports, registrations or simply some feedback
you can contact this special
e-mail-address.
News from the SN-archives:
Since November the account management called "SN-KontoArchiv II" is in development.
The input of account data has already finished. Currently the input and output statistics
are added. SN-KontoArchiv II is the successor of SN-KontoArchiv I and ist not
compatible to the previous version because all source code of this version has vanished.
SN-KontoArchiv will be part of "SN-Archiv-Paket".
Those ones who have already registered can also use SN-KontoArchiv II without any restrictions
Status of SN-EuroArchiv II:
SN-EuroArchiv 1.9 is also in work. The entry list can be now adapted with up to
17 columns. The HTML-support for KMS and special coins was also improved.
Now it is possible to determine the colour of special coins in KMS (KMS-HTML-site) or
to determine the special coin from the KMS (special coin-HTML-site).
Just like above: Send suggestions, bug reports, registrations or other feedback to
this e-mail-address. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Mar.2005
Oliver Roberts (e-mail)
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TCP-Stack: Bugfix for AmiTCP/Genesis
For a longer time AmiTCP-/Genesis-users reported problems when AmiSSL was used.
Now it is clear that the BSD-code is buggy on which AmiTCP/Genesis is based.
Oliver Roberts (IBrowse, AmiSSL) now provides an unofficial patch for the mentioned
TCP-stacks under the title link.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Mar.2005
ANN (website)
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Download-Manager: Wallget 1.0
"Wallget" is a download manager for MorphOS and AmigaOS 3 which is based on WGet.
Changes in version 1.0:
- fixed http auth code
- fixed losing urls from list
- added non real-time updating download list (now list could be updated in real-time or once on 0.1, 0.2, ... , 2s - speed up program on slow configs, or during massive downloads)
- added speed-o-meter
- added locale support.
- custom join and copy functions
- fixed lots of bugs in segmented download (should be stable now)
- fixed not deleting profiles for disk
- added option for copying profiles
- replaced custom toolbar function with TheBar.mcc
- urls in lister longer than 50 chars are now optionaly cutted to 50 chars
- thousand and dec sperators are now taken from locale
- fixed bugs in creating files during recurisve download
- added option to hide file name, download info, donwload gauge and speed-o-meter fields
- looots of other bugfixes
Download: WallGet-m68k-1.0.lha (490 KB)
Download: WallGet-MOS-1.0.lha (730 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Mar.2005
Steffen Gutmann (ANF)
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Database: MUIbase V1.9
Today version 1.9 of the Amiga-database MUIbase was published. News and
improvements in this version:
- New program functions: DAY, MONTH, YEAR, DATEDMY, MONTHDAYS, YEARDAYS, ADDMONTH, ADDYEAR, APPLY
- Improvements for TRIMSTR and REPLACESTR
- New start functions when double clicking in virtual lists
- Internal optimations which speeds up Lisp-code
- Better support for Amiga OS4
- Option for external program sources
Besides this there is now a MUIbase "light" version which does not have all the functions
of MUIbase. Structure editor, program editor and ARexx-port are missing. MUIbase light
can be freely copied and is available for i386 Linux and Windows.
A GTK V2.4 installation is required. In future MUIbase light will be completed to a
full version.
For discussions and feedback concerning MUIbase there is a
mailing list.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Mar.2005
Pegasosforum (website)
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MorphOS: SDL-games Pig and Quadromania ported
Ilkka Lehtoranta has published the SDL-games Pig and Quadromania V0.2 for MorphOS.
Quadromania (screenshot)
is a mind game written by Matthias Arndt (ASM-Software)
where you have to change all game figures of the board to the same colour.
Pig is a simple platform game and is above all an example for programming sprites and
partial display-update-technics.
Download:
Pig.lha (583 KB)
Quadromania.lha (298 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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25.Mar.2005
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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MorphOS: CanonToolBox update to v0.91 / GPL release
Due licencing of libptp, Rupert Hausberger has released CanonToolBox v0.91, a MorphOS program for PTP-compatible digital cameras from Canon, under GPL (screenshot). According to the author, this does not mean that the developement would have stopped.
Changes:
- fixed usb-setup routine
- updated to latest libptp 1.0.2
- project goes GPL
Download:
CanonToolBox_0.91.lha (155 KB)
CanonToolBox_source_0.91.lha (231 KB) (snx)
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24.Mar.2005
amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: Movie-Player "Mplayer" Preview 4 (Update)
Under the title-link you'll find a new beta version of OS 4 port of Mplayer (screenshot). The most important changes in comparison to the last release:
- Speed raised about 25-30 %
- New video and audio drivers (vo sdl, ao sdl, vo jpg, vo png). Full-screen display is possible without any problems using the SDL drivers (change to it from window mode and back with "f"). Because of missing hardware support the full-screen mode is still relatively slow. The JPEG and PNG drivers convert a video to a series of single pictures
- Streaming video/audio is supported (untested)
- Support for "playlists"
- Support for more codecs
Known problems:
- The SDL drivers fails to start when there is no corresponding resolution available
[this part of long article not translated -DM]
Update: (25 MAR 05, 14:45, cg)
The LHA archive on the homepage is apparently corrupt. As an alternative you can find the data at os4depot.net. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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24.Mar.2005
Martin Wolf (ANF)
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Tales of Tamar: New Amiga Version 0.53-R2
Beloved Amiga Community, the time has finally come that we release a new Amiga version. Only now, finally, has it become ready, and we're now going to demonstrate our unbroken Amiga loyalty.
Perhaps we can also tempt you to participate in this unique roleplaying game. With the action of the "Great War of Anarrow" we gives you the possibility of participating in this game and its special community. It is of no import to us which computers you use. It's all the same whether you choose Pegasos, AmigaOne, UAE, Amithlon, Classic Amiga, PC or Mac. They all have the possibility of participating at least in the shareware version. Become acquainted with nice humans and to increase your circle of friends.
Further, we'd like to notify you that Amiga dealers already offer Tales of Tamar at reasonable prices. It's been available on eBay for about a year for 9.90 euros (approx. 14 dollars -DM) and at Vesalia the remaining stock is 39.90 euros (approx 65 dollars -DM). As soon as this remaining stock is gone however, the price will rise.
[long, long list of new features and much other article text not translated -DM]
We wish you a lot of fun with the new version, and remind you to first make a backup, before you install the new version, you never know what could happen!
-Your ToT team
Download: ToT_Amiga_V0.53_R2.lha (15 MB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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24.Mar.2005
MorphOS-ML
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MorphOS: Developer Utility ChocolateCastle Released
With ChocolateCastle V0.1 Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski has released a tool that helps programmers to assemble BOOPSI and MUI classes (screenshot).
ChocolateCastle provides systems for such classes on the basis of the developer's defaults. You can indicate the name of the class, the superclass, the generating method (including the respective dispatcher entry) and the message structure that is used. The program produces compiler-ready source code as framework for the programmer to further fill out.
Extension of ChocolateCastle's functionality is planned for future versions by the incorporation of shared LIBRARIES, external Boopsi and MUI classes, as well as complete MUI applications further in the future. Comments, suggestions, feature requests and bug reports are welcomed by the author.
Download: chocolatecastle-0.1-mos.lha (64 KB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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24.Mar.2005
ANN (website)
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Update of xml2.library to Version 4.0
Newly-available Version 4.0 of xml2.library allows the reading, processing, and writing of XML and HTML data.
The DTD support contains the analysis and validation of even complex DTDs, either during the parser entry or later after the modification of the document. The output is achieved in a simple SAX stream or a DOM-resembling representation in memory. In the latter case the built-in XPath and XPointer implementations are used in order to select subnodes or ranges. A flexible input/output mechanism is available with existing HTTP and FTP modules combined in a URI library.
[rest of technical article not translated -DM]
Download: xml2.library-4.0.lha (3 MB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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