20.Jan.2005
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Software News through 20th January 2005
WarpJPEG Datatype 45.4
Oliver Roberts has released a new version of his JPEG datatype "WarpJPEG." The archive contains versions for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and WarpOS. WarpJPEG is shareware.
- Added native AmigaOS 4 version
- Updated with the latest WarpDT engine build
- MorphOS and WarpOS versions recompiled with VBCC 0.8g
- Added Polish installer translation
- Updated Spanish and French installers
Link: Homepage
Download: WarpJPEGdt.lha (187 KB)
Shorten 2.3a
"Shorten" is an audio-compression program with which WAV audio can be compressed without loss. SHN data is often used by smaller bands who make their music available for free on the Internet. (samples at archive.org).
Link: homepage
Download: shorten-2.3a.lha (195 KB)
AmiMSN 1.0 WIP (Update)
AmiMSN is a console-based IM client for the MSN network. Written in ARexx.
Download: AmiMSN1.0-WIP.lha (52 KB) (cg) (Translation: dm)
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20.Jan.2005
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: 2004 Game of the Year?
The makers of "Amiga Games Hit Parade" are calling for a vote on the best games of 2004. A corresponding form for the notation of last year's releases may be found under the title link.
From here on the polling is active for the best Amiga games. You can take part in the vote, just send an e-mail with maximum 20 of your favorite games to David "Daff" Brunet. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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20.Jan.2005
Vinnny (ANF)
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ProTracker 5.0: Status Update
The new version (5.0) of ProTracker should appear this spring (current screenshot). A short English-language report about the current status of the Windows version may be found under the title link.
Concerning the MorphOS and Amiga OS4 versions the author notes the following: the MorphOS version has undergone in-depth testing over the last year, and the Amiga version was successfully compiled by Hans-Joerg Frieden, but there were still some problems with the affair as a whole. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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20.Jan.2005
MorphOS-ML
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MorphOS: New Beta-Version Python 2.4
Guillaume Roguez's MorphOS port of the scripting language Python 2.4 is now in new beta-version 0.4beta2.
Python is an object-oriented programming language that was invented by Guido van Rossum in the early 90s at the Center for Science and Information in Amsterdam. The text of a Python program in all implementations is transparently translated into an intermediate code that is executed by an interpreter.
Download: python-2.4-mos_0.4beta2_bin_src.lha (12 MB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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20.Jan.2005
Vinnny (ANF)
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AmigaOpenOffice.org Website Opened
Click on the title link to see that the AmigaOpenOffice.org website has opened its gates. It's the official project website for an Amiga OS4 port of that office software suite. The publishers want to provide news and a discussion forum among other things. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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20.Jan.2005
(ANF)
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Amiga Inc.: Co-Worker Information Removed from the Website
There's no longer any information to be found on amiga.com about co-workers of the organization. On the corresponding page there are now just two e-mail addresses: developer@amiga.com and information@amiga.com. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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20.Jan.2005
Vinnny (ANF)
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Position Taken on MUI Version 4 for MorphOS
Under the title link you'll find that MUI's developer Stefan Stuntz has articulated his viewpoint of the situation between his user interface and the MorphOS operating system.
In this communication Ralph Schmidt's statement (amiga-news.de reported) is confirmed, that there was an offer to make the new and future versions of MUI available to Genesi at no charge and also to offer them in shareware form to users of AmigaOS 3.X and OS4.
Further, MUI V4 is nearly completed and there is nothing legally binding that prohibits uniform versions being released for all three of the cited operating systems. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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19.Jan.2005
ANN (website)
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Pegasos: Official support by Gentoo Linux
By the title link the Gentoo/PPC team announces official support for Genesi's Pegasos II.
Genesi will offer preinstalled Gentoo/PPCsystems in future and give a part of the profits to the Gentoo foundation.
Before the release compilation there are still some minor technical issues to solve.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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19.Jan.2005
abime.net (website)
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CAPS update: 34 more games archived
The CAPS Team that put the back up of old copy-protected Amiga games including their regarding copy protection mechanisms to their agenda, has put another 34
games to the CAPS own format which can be read by newer
UAE versions. A list of the newly archived titles is to get by the title link. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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19.Jan.2005
Vinny (#morphos)
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MorphOS: Video capturing with "BTR_8x8"
BTR_8x8 digitizes a PAL video signal by using a PCI video capture card based on the BT8x8" chip set.
Digitized is either in a grey scale or with 16 bit colour depth, some examples are available by the title link.
Download: btr.lha (35 KB)
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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19.Jan.2005
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MorphOS core developer focuses on embedded devices
As it is to read within the logfile of yesterday's IRC discussion (title link), Ralph 'laire' Schmidt, inventor and main developer of
MorphOS, will focus on developmemt of MorhOS for embedded devices as a consequence of the differences with many people of the development team.
For all details read the logfile at the title link. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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19.Jan.2005
Robert Wahnsiedler (e-mail)
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Phoenix Amiga 1000: Latest ROM revision wanted
Because of amiga-news.de readers demand,
"Phoenix Micro Technologies" will produce a last series of the Amiga 1000 replacement board
A1000 Phoenix.
But the producer lacks the latest version of the SCSI ROM for the Phoenix motherboard.
The currently latest available version is revision "J" - the last recent version ever is "Revision N".
If some of our readers might own a ROM of revision N (or some other version more recent that "J"), that person is kindly asked to e-mail to
Robert "apex" Wahnsiedler. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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15.Jan.2005
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Software news until 15.01.2005
Lohnsteuer 2005
The shareware program "Lohnsteuer 2005" (for Germany) by Heiko Strohmeier calculates the income and church taxes, valid in Germany.
Link: Homepage
Download: lohnsteuer.lha (155 KB)
CManager 32.1
"Contact Manager" is a central bookmark and address management software.
Link: homepage
TheBar.mcc 18.4
"TheBar" is a MUI class by Alfonso Ranieri to program comfortable button banks.
Link: homepage
codesets.library 3.1
The codesets.library offers support to programmers for the handling of different character codes tables (code pages) and for the conversion of texts.
Link: homepage
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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15.Jan.2005
pegasos.org (website)
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MorphOS: tutorial for developing shared libraries
Under the title link you can find a tutorial by Ilkka Lehtoranta that explains the development of PPC native shared libraries for MorphOS.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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15.Jan.2005
Cloanto Amiga Team (ANF)
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Kara N. Blohm (Kara fonts) dead
As Cloanto announced, Kara N. Blohm (1944-2004) died on December, 10th because of a heart attack. In the Amiga scene she became famous especially because of the coloured and animated fonts that she had developed. The complete Kara collection is for quite some time available on Aminet .
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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15.Jan.2005
ANN (website)
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AmigaOS4: GUI for Remote Desktop Client
There's now a graphical user interface for AmigaOS 4 available (screenshot) for the Remote Desktop Client (amiga-news.de reported).
The Remote Desktop project team are: Martin Blom, Jörg Strohmayer, Darren Eveland, Sigbjørn Skjæret, Simon Archer, Toaks, restore2003 and JoBBo.
Download: RDesktop-OS4.lha (223 KB) (snx)
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14.Jan.2005
Christian Krenner (ANF)
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Extreme Amiga 600 Upgrading Page: User-Gallery
The "Extreme Amiga 600 Upgrading Page" created by Christian Krenner celebrates its
second anniversary and had more than 25,500 visitors.
Because of that a user gallery with photos of several upgraded Amiga 600 computers
together with its owners has been created. Owners of further upgraded Amiga 600 computers
can also add their photos to the gallery.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.Jan.2005
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: Gallerius 1.0
"Gallerius" assists in the creation of HTML thumbnail galleries.
Download: gallerius.lha (129 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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13.Jan.2005
Mareike K. (ANF)
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Meeting Karlsruhe 2005 - #amigager Invited
The Karlsruhe Meeting 2005 (Meka05) occurs starting tomorrow morning at FH Karlsruhe. Mareike K. from the IRC channel #amigager informs:
"The all-year party with cult status was started by Kim 'Kimble' Schmitz, the owner of the IRC channel #amigager. Registrations are accepted at www.meka2005.de. More information is available by clicking on the title link." (snx) (Translation: dm)
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13.Jan.2005
Elbox Computer (ANF)
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Elbox: Dragon Coldfire busboard FAQ released
Under the title link Elbox has released a FAQ about the Dragon, an announced ColdFire-based turbocard and busboard for the Amiga 1200 (amiga-news.de reported). (snx)
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13.Jan.2005
Seg (ANF)
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New VNC client: TwinVNC (Beta)
TwinVNC ist a Virtual Networking Computing client. Beta versions for AmigaOS 3/4 are available on request, a MorphOS version will be available soon.
TwinVNC features:
- Supported codecs: RAW, RRE, CoRRE, Hextile, ZLibHex, ZlibRaw, ZRle and Tight (with jpeg option)
- Sub-codecs: Copyrect, RichCursor and XCursor
- Display: 3, 6, 8, 16 and 32 bits (window (with toolbar option) and full screen support)
- Supports mousewheel and third button
- Supports overlay with downscale
- Supports Page Down/Up, Begin/End, Insert on AmigaOne/Pegasos keyboards
- Emulates said keys on other machines (using Shift + arrow keys)
- Switching from fullscreen to window and from overlay to non-overlay mode is possible on the fly
- Can be iconified
Amongst other things, a graphical user interface is already in development.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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13.Jan.2005
Jörg Brenner (ANF)
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Hardware Compendium: Update of Amiga Hardware World
Right now at AHW there are over 850 expansions listed for the Amiga, each with its own description, many of them with pictures.
The current update includes countless new hardware articles and expanded descriptions and 66 new photos - for example a photo of the floppyport expansion Drive Expander, the SCSI controller Rapidfire, and an early revision of the graphic card Picasso II (many thanks to all those who sent it in!).
Beyond that there's now a handbook of the "Apollo 30x0/40x0" CPU cards as well as seven new installation diskettes available for download. A detailed overview of all the current changes to the website may be found here.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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13.Jan.2005
Maniac (ANF)
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Amiga User Meeting in Braunschweig
In the Teutloff School in Braunschweig on the 19th of March 2005 there will be another user meeting. More information may be found under the title link. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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13.Jan.2005
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Amizilla Project: More Prizes for Contributors Announced
The winner of the Pyromania/Millennium bundle (amiga-news.de reported) is Peter Halin, whose donation was the first to put the reward for the browser port over the 9,000 U.S. dollar mark. The current amount is now 9,217 dollars.
Similarly obtaining a Pyromania/Millennium software bundle from DiscreetFX are Darren O'Leary and Mark Bond, whose donation followed right after that of Peter Halin.
Furthermore, DiscreetFX promises everybody who donates after Peter Halin and on the way to the 10,000 dollar mark the same software bundle, should the 10,000 figure be reached by the end of this month. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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13.Jan.2005
ANN (website)
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Update of the Remote Desktop Client
With version 1.3.1cvs of 12th January 2005 the Remote Desktop Client has taken care of a few bugs, such as those with iconification. It's also been adapted to compiler GCC 3.x. Also there's now a native version for Amiga OS4.
For the AmigaOS4-Version, AmiSSL V1 with all the ciphers is required as well as the "OS4 glue files" to be found there.
Furthermore, the Remote Desktop Client FAQ has been expanded. The authors urge you to look at the appropriate section if you have a problem.
This update was made possible through Martin Blom, Jörg Strohmayer and Darren Eveland.
The "remote Desktop Protocol" (RDP) makes it possible to access over a network applications that are implemented on a Windows terminal server. On the user side only a representation of the respective application takes place (screenshot).
Download:
RDesktop-AmigaOS-2005-01-12.lha (236 KB)
RDesktop-Jan12-OS4-Native.lha (96 KB)
RDesktop-MorphOS-2005-01-12.lha (528 KB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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10.Jan.2005
amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4.0 Replacement CDs
Leuven, Belgium - 10 January, 2005
As a service to our loyal customers without broadband Internet, Hyperion Entertainment in collaboration with Soft 3 is now offering all registered Amiga OS 4.0 users the possibility to order a professionally duplicated CD to replace the original Amiga OS 4.0 Developer Pre-release CD which came with your AmigaOne SE or XE.
The new CD not only contains the first Amiga OS 4.0 update and updated SDK which are available for download from our site but also a substantially reworked and updated "contribution folder".
MicroA1 customers need not apply as this CD should already be in their possession.
Further details can be found here. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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08.Jan.2005
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Software news: Meridian 2.10, AmiMSN 1.0 WIP
Meridian 2.10
The commodity Meridian allows the usage of "virtual hotkeys", maybe better known as "mouse gestures". As starting point and direction of the mouse movement are play a role there are uncounted combinations that you can use.
Download: meridian_1_1.lha (321 KB)
AmiMSN 1.0 WIP
AmiMSN, a console based IM client for the MSNB network written in ARexx, is now available as version "1.0 WIP". The changes can be read in the Changelog.
Download: AmiMSN1.0-WIP.lzx (19 KB)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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08.Jan.2005
Pascal Gisin (ANF)
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Text editor: Textloader v8.3 released
Pascal Gisin has created an update for Textloader. This is a text editor for ASCII and FTXT now available in version 8.3. The program can be downloaded using thr title link and should also be available in some days on Aminet in the cathegorie text/edit.
Download: Textloader.lha (639 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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08.Jan.2005
Holger Krefting (ANF)
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Tales of Tamar: 3D drivers for Radeon cards anyone?
Martin Wolf from the Tales of Tamar team is searching for a 3D driver for Radeon cards to develop this medieval MMP fantasy RPG played via e-mail further. He wrote:
"This is a call for help to all developers in the Amiga market! For the time being our developers are among other things busy with the realization of a 3D map for the Amiga. Under the title link you can have a look at some of the first screenshots of an early Amiga beta version that is being developed for now on an Amiga 4000/040 with Cybervision 64/3D.
Though we own some Pegasos computers with Radeon cards there does not seem to exist a 3D driver yet for this system that is made available to developers. It's for sure that an Amiga 4000/040 is to slow to develop a good 3D map on it.
So our question is:
- Is there a 3D driver for Radeon cards?
- Is anybody right now developing a 3D driver for Radeon cards?
- And if such a person exists: would this person possibly be willing to put it at our disposal for the development of the "Tales of Tamar" 3D map for the Amiga or Pegasos?
(Alternatively we would be ready to distribute the driver via Eternity if such an interest should exist.)
At this time the card is fully functional only under WinUAE with Warp3D emulation or via software renderer. Systems with Voodoo or Permedia2 cards we do not own."
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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08.Jan.2005
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New poll: Which operating system is your workhorse?
In our last poll we asked you about your judgement of the Amiga's future and wether you would perhaps be ready to invest once more in an "Amiga" (respectively a clone). The results of this poll can be found here.
In our current poll (title link) we are interested in the operating system you are using privately most:
- AmigaOS 3 on a real Amiga
- AmigaOS 3 on an emulator
- AmigaOS 4
- MorphOS
- AROS
- A combination of 1-5, e.g. OS4 or MorphOS at home, OS3 on a laptop or at work
- One of the systems named under 1-5 in conjunction with another system (Windows, Mac OS, Linux...)
- The OS I use most has nothing to do with the Amiga (Windows, Mac OS, Linux...)
The actual result can be found here, while we explicitly point out that the results aren't representative in any way.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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08.Jan.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS4: bugfixed version of the game xbill 2.4
The AmigaOS4 port of the small point'n'click shooter xbill was replaced by a bugfixed version after the original OS4 version had crashed very fast on some systems.
The aim of xbill is to prevent the computers supervised by the player from being infected with a widely spread operating system.
Download: xbill_os4.lha (187 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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08.Jan.2005
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: bugfixes for OpenSSH
Marek Szyprowski fixed a bug that existed in all OpenSSH ports for MorphOS until now. With his patch does the key combination Ctrl-C now work correctly under MorphOS 1.4.
openssh-3.9p1-MOS-ttyfix.lha (3.6 MB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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08.Jan.2005
ANN (website)
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Game: dynAMIte 2.4 released
The Bomberman/Dynablaster clone 'dynAMIte' is now available as version 2.4. The game can be played (only) via TCP/IP by up to eight players.
Changes next to bugfixes are among other things a GoldenHeart bonus (reviving all players in the team mode) and an increasing of the laser limit to ten per card. In addition, the dynAMIteAI.library for MorphOS got an update to version 3.269.
dynAMIte runs on Amigas with a CPU 68020+, AmigaOS 3.x, TCP/IP stack, CyberGraphX/P96 or AGA with BlazeWCP, MUI3.8, AHI, identify.library 13.x,NList.mcc, BetterBalance.mcc (optional) and XPK V4.0 (optional).
Download:
dynAMIte 2.4 (full version) (2 MB)
update to dynAMIte 2.4 (686 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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