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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23.Mar.2005
MorphZone (website)
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MorphOS: First screenshot of the Nemesis desktop
Marian 'MaaG' Guc has put a first screenshot of his MorphOS desktop Nemesis (formerly known as project "Athene") to his website. The first working version of this Ambient replacement is available only to the core developers, in a later development phase it will be available to the public. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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23.Mar.2005
falkemedia
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AMIGAplus 03/2005 (#156) - ARIANA & Larry
AMIGAplus 03/2005 (#156) is out now including the following reports:
- exclusive ARIANA hardware preview
- interview with AHT Europe
- interview with Al Lowe (Leisure Suit Larry)
- AMIGAplus CD #32 including fxPAINT 1 and Foundation DC
- hardfiles in UAE (workshop)
- Horny 1.0 review
- Ultra ATA IDE Controller for A1 reviewed
- Competition Pro USB (review)
- Commodore 64 Direct-to-TV (C64 DTV) (review)
- emulator-hardware XPC Barebone vs. Mac mini in competition
- CDonFire and 6 more shareware titles tested
- XML on Amiga part 3
- ReAction developing under OS4 part 3
- SDL-games for OS4
- LemonAmiga.com spotlighted
- Diskmag-Scene 2005 report
- Amiga-news (Amiga, PPC, Linux, Open System, games)
- Amiga Status Report
- and much more.
AMIGAplus can be ordered at www.amigaplus.de (title link). (nba)
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23.Mar.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Mounting guidelines for the Micro-A1 (English)
At the title link Lyle Hazelwood provides an English mounting guideline for the Micro-A1 board including some figure schemes and connectors pin distributions. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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22.Mar.2005
Vinnny (ANF)
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Emulator: Update of ZX-Live to version 0.30
The Sinclair ZX-Spectrum 48/128K and Pentagon 128K emulator ZX-Live by Dmitriy Zhivilov has been updated to version 0.30.
Changes:
- Rewritten sound routines: now the emulator is running at the correct speed (68060 CPU with fast RAM)
- Fixed .Z80 loader: before, uncompressed blocks having a length of #FFFF have been unpacked incorrectly
- Some bugfixes regarding the emulation of ZX-Spectrum 128k timings
- Added loading .SLT files as .Z80 files (no full support of SLT format)
- Added support for AY-chips in hardware (thanks to Lord Vader for consultation and betatest); the scheme for attaching a real AY chip to the Amiga can be found on Aminet in the archive mhm-mAYhem.lha
Download:
ZXLive030.lha (97 KB)
mhm-mAYhem.lha (148 KB) (snx)
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20.Mar.2005
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Aminet: uploads till March 20th, 2005
Here are the new Aminet uploads since our last posting:
showtip.lha biz/patch 26K OS4 ShowTip for SoundFX (SFX)
wookiechat.lha comm/irc 423K IRC Client (Internet Relay Chat)
rayrace.lha demo/file 66K Realtime Raytracing Engine demo for OS4
robodoc_mos.lha dev/misc 55K Autodocs processor (txt/guide/html/latex/
Amiga-Mania.lha docs/anno 3K Real Amiga-Mania World IRC Channel in NaN
AmigaChannel.lha docs/anno 3K Real Amiga-Mania World IRC Channel in NaN
AmigaWorld.lha docs/anno 3K Real Amiga-Mania World IRC Channel in NaN
RealAmigaWorld.txt docs/anno 8K Real Amiga-Mania World IRC Channel in NaN
AMIthlon_CD.lha docs/help 180K How to make an updated bootable AMIthlon
AmigaPower.lha docs/hyper 61K AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine (12 Mar
lbreakout2_mos.lha game/actio 2.8M LBreakout2 is a free Breakout clone
DC2Lvl-EMine7.lha game/data 394K 81 levels for Diamond Caves II
amines.lha game/misc 349K NES Emulator
BTCE.lha game/misc 91K Bard's Tale 1/2 Character Editor
smsplus.lha game/misc 391K Sega Master System / Game Gear emulator
tgemu.lha game/misc 350K TGEmu / NEC PC-16 emulator
warpsnes.lha game/misc 1.6M Nintendo SNES Emulator (WarpSNES)
gse.lha game/patch 17K Editor for Gunship2000 roster files
lpairs-1.0.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
ofour.lha gfx/misc 1.1M OS 4 styled skin for Morph OS
Sv5-1.lha gfx/misc 638K SView5 V1.60 (13.3.2005) 68k/MOS - Part 1
Sv5-2.lha gfx/misc 157K SView5 V1.60 (13.3.2005) 68k/MOS - Part 2
Sv5-3a.lha gfx/misc 127K SView5 V1.60 (13.3.2005) 68k/MOS - Part 3
Sv5-3b.lha gfx/misc 332K SView5 V1.60 (13.3.2005) 68k/MOS - Part 3
Sv5-4.lha gfx/misc 38K SView5 V1.60 (13.3.2005) 68k/MOS - Part 4
Sv5-5.lha gfx/misc 147K SView5 V1.60 (13.3.2005) 68k/MOS - Part 5
Sv5-6.lha gfx/misc 579K SView5 V1.60 (13.3.2005) 68k/MOS - Part 6
Sv5-7.lha gfx/misc 158K SView5 V1.60 (13.3.2005) 68k/MOS - Part 7
xmamegui.lha misc/emu 160K GUI for the OS4 xMAME port v0.12
defraq-shadow.mpg mods/mpg 1.0M Mp3 by defraq
my_sfx_toolbar.lha mus/edit 27K An arexx-toolbar for SoundFX. Needs AWN-P
TheX0XPackage.lha mus/edit 44K A set of editors for the TR-X0X & TB303
AC97mixer21.lha mus/misc 27K Sound card control program
freedb_copytracks.lha mus/misc 10K ARexx script for FreeDB to create MP3 tra
simpleplay.lha mus/play 501K Music player - OGG, WAV, VOC, MOD, S3M, I
sorcier-glouton.jpg pix/illu 66K Drawing picture of a sorcier glouton (gre
AP30Covers.lha pix/misc 348K AMiGa=PoWeR n°30 Covers Recto & Verso
APLKonwerter.lha text/misc 8K Convert files: AmigaPL<->Windows (RxMUI)
bzip2_1.0.3.lha util/arc 487K Bzip2
Tree178.lha util/cli 20K Lists Directory content tree-like
MathLibs881.lha util/libs 56K IEEE-libs best for WinUAE +src +bonus r8
ttengine.lha util/libs 591K TrueType text rendering engine (v 7.0)
idle1_6.lha util/moni 15K A (working) A68K cpu monitor
qdirgzip.lha util/pack 30K Gzips files as separate entities in given
wet.lha util/wb 314K Show weather conditions on Workbench (OS4
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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20.Mar.2005
Chris Perver (ANF)
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EvenMore: Textviewer now with datatype support
A new Datatypes plugin is available, allowing EvenMore to load any text document supported by datatypes (e.g. via DocDatatypes, etc). The executable and Generic plugin have been modified to allow this Datatype plugin to work.
EvenMore plugins take precedence over the Datatypes. If you have a document that you prefer opened via a datatype rather than through an EvenMore plugin, simply delete the EvenMore plugin (not forgetting to flush the memory), and reload the file.
I have also fixed a major problem with the language catalogs. Unfortunately I had deleted some unused strings in the executable, and this meant some strings appeared in the wrong place. Make sure you download the new executable and the EasyGUI Prefs plugin to fix this. Thanks!
The new versions of EvenMore and its extensions can be downloaded under the title link in the Download and the Plugins area, respectively. (snx)
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19.Mar.2005
ANN (website)
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Amiga Java: status report about JAmiga project
Under the title link you can find a short status report about the Java implementation "Jamiga". Version 0.0.5 will soon be available, interested developers can already download the "daily snapshots" and compile these.
The source codes are prepared for being compiled under AmigaOS 3 and MorphOS. Whether this can be done under AmigaOS 4 is unknown, the developers ask for feedback about this.
The new version implements now for the first time the "JNI" interface. This makes it for external developers possible to create Java native libraries that are built like the shared libraries known from the AmigaOS.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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19.Mar.2005
amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaDE: integrated development environment "Adept"
The AmigaDE developers from Omniscience offer on their website an IDE (integrated development environment) basing on Eclipse called Adept. An installation of Eclipse 2.1.x as well as the Java JDK 1.4.1 are required.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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18.Mar.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS4: LPairs ported / Update of LTris
Edgar Schwan has ported the memory game LPairs
(screenshot) in version 1.0
for AmigaOS4 and has fixed some bugs of the Tetris-clone LTris 1.0.9
(screenshot).
Download:
ltris.lha (1 MB)
lpairs.lha (625 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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18.Mar.2005
Amiga Inc. (website)
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KMOS is now Amiga Inc. / Internet website updated
On March 16th, the company KMOS from New York has renamed itself to Amiga Incorporated.
The website amiga.com has been completely changed with the focus on AmigaAnywhere.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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18.Mar.2005
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MorphOS: Software-News
assign 50.3
With the help of the Unofficial MorphOS Update Project
version 50.3 of the assign command has been published. The basis for the software of
this project is AROS.
Download: assign50.3.lha (17 KB)
anaLOGuer 0.9
anaLOGuer is a little program
which filters useful information from the Debug-Logs of MorphOS and then it colourful
marks (screenshot).
As source Ramdebug, the serial record and log-files are recognized. You need
the file PowerTerm.mcc from the MUICON-archive.
Download:
analoguer.lha (20 KB)
muicon.lha (291 KB)
aexpat.library 3.0
The aexpat.library which is published by Alfonso Ranieri
is a XML-Parser-library, written in C. The archive also contains a 68k-version.
Download: expat.lha (253 KB)
JanoEditor 1.01d
The text editor JanoEditor which is published under the GPL and was written by
Cyrille Guillaume and Thierry Pierron was compiled by Nicolas Sallin for MorphOS.
Download: JanoEditor.lha (344 KB)
Noiz2sa 0.51
Noiz2sa is an abstract Shoot'em-up-game by Kenta Cho
which was ported by Nicolas Sallin for MorphOS (screenshot).
Download: noiz2sa.lha (8.6 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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18.Mar.2005
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AMOS games: Textris v6 and Insane
Two new games which have been written with AMOS have been published:
"Insane" is a classic platform game inspired by an old Atari game ("Cannibals") (screenshots: 1, 2).
The Tetris-Clone Textris v6 was written by Andrew Rodgers and
requires at least 1.5 MB CHIP- and 1 MB FAST-RAM (screenshots: 1, 2, 3).
Both games are available as bootable ADF-diskimages.
Insane: Insane.rar (416 KB)
Textris: TextrisV6.zip (732 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.Mar.2005
amigafuture.de (website)
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CD-/DVD Writing: Frying Pan 0.4b
Tomasz Wiszkowski has released version 0.4b of his CD and DVD burning program "Frying Pan." In the latest release a few bugs have been ironed out, the speed of the program has sharply increased, and from here on many new DVD drives are supported.
Frying Pan needs MUI including the NList, NListview and NListtree.mcc classes, as well as AHI. Under the title-link you'll find the latest list of supported drives.
Download: TFP.lzx (670 KB) (cg) (Translation: dm)
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17.Mar.2005
ANN (website)
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distributed.net: PowerPC/MorphOS Now in the Top 10 of RC5-72 Charts
In the RC5-72 charts at distributed.net MorphOS has overtaken the PowerPC/AIX participants to reach tenth place overall. The next possible candidate to overtake are x86/OS/2 and x86/Solaris in 18 to 145 days. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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