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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07.Jan.2005
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Software-News: MUIrc 1.03, amrss 3.2
MUIrc 1.03
MUIrc is an IRC-/bitlbee-client written in ARexx which can communicate with several
servers simultaneously and for this it uses a single window performance. MUIrc requires
RxMUI 41.1, CManager 31.4 and RxSocket.library (all these archives are available
here).
Link: Homepage
amrss 3.2
amrss shows so called "RSS-Feeds" that means short messages in text form as they are offered
by amiga-news.de or
amiga.org.
Link: Homepage
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jan.2005
pegasosforum.de (website)
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MorphOS: Normalize 0.7.6 and KeyMorpher 1.1
Normalize 0.7.6
With Normalize you can correct the volume of different WAV-files to a common level.
Link: Download site
KeyMorpher 1.1
KeyMorpher is a keymap editor for MorphOS.
Link: Download site
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jan.2005
amigafuture.de (website)
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Emulator: E-UAE 0.8.27 (AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, Linux, Mac OS)
Richard Drummond has published a new version of the Amiga emulator E-UAE. E-UAE is
the attempt to make available the newest version of WinUAE to users of different
operating systems.
In E-UAE 0.8.27 the compability has been further improved because elements of
the "Core Emulation" from WinUAE 0.9.9.x have been used. The 68k-emulator is now
5 % faster because of some optimations and under Mac OS X the emulator now
works up to 20 % faster. Furthermore several bugs have been fixed. You can get a complete
list of all changes from the Changelog.
The version for Linux (x86) is already available under the title link. Versions for
AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, Linux (PPC) and Mac OS X will follow soon.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jan.2005
ANN (website)
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Guide for using Directory Opus Magellan 2 under MorphOS
Under the title link you can find an English FAQ which helps you running
Directory Opus Magellan 2 (V5.82) under MorphOS 1.4. The functions which can be changed
are listers, datatypes, start menus, buttons, keymap shortcuts and FTP.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jan.2005
Markus Weiss (mausle) (ANF)
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OpenOffice: Project for Amiga port started
A project which is supposed to port OpenOffice has been started.
In order to make easy the communication of the developers some services have been established:
Obviously it was decided to use SVN for managing the source code versions.
Currently it was started preparations for an AmigaOS-Port of SVN.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jan.2005
Christoph Dietz (E-Mail)
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amiga-news.de: More than 100,000 documents
During the change of the year the message part (including comments) of amiga-news.de
has become over 100,000 pages. We want to say thank you to all of our readers
for their loyalty and support.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jan.2005
AMIGAplus
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AMIGAplus 01/2005 (#154) - Lost Games (CD incl. full version of "Liquid Kids")
AMIGAplus 01/2005 (#154) with its cover CD is out now - including the
platform game "Liquid Kids" from Ocean which has never been released before! Content of this issue:
- Lost Games Report
- Karate Fighter reviewed
- ReAction coding under OS4 (#1)
- Amiga and XML (#1)
- 15 top cameras reviewed in our own photography test laboratory
- Descent Freespace for OS4 reviewed
- Demoscene anno 1995
- Amiga ClassiX 4 review
- AmigaSys 1.5 review
- Amiga Meeting 2004 report
- and many more articles
AMIGAplus is available via subscription and as single order at
www.amigaplus.de. (nba)
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06.Jan.2005
Martin 'Mason' Merz (ANF)
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MasonIcons: New Icon archives
The following new and reworked archives are available on the MasonIcons homepage:
- AWebMIPNG (2nd release)
- new navigation bar, default images and a transfer anim
- png icons for AWeb, AWebConfig and AWebJS
- CardMIPNG (1st release)
- png icons for mass storage devices
- RebootMIPNG (1st release)
- CardMI (1st release)
- glowicons (256 colours) for mass storage devices
Visit the title link for further information and previews. (snx)
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06.Jan.2005
amigaworld.net (website)
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AROS: Review of AROS-Max
A short review of the AROS distribution AROS-Max, with which the "Amiga Research Operating System" may either be booted from a CD or tried out under Windows via the use of the emulator QEMU. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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06.Jan.2005
Pegasosforum (website)
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MorphOS: Update of Python 2.4 Port to Version 0.4pre
MorphOS-Version 0.4pre of the scripting language Python 2.4 is available for download in the Pegasos forum.
Python is an object-oriented programming language that was developed by Guido van Rossum in the early 90s at the Center for Scientific Information Applications in Amsterdam. The text of a Python program, in all Python implementations to and including the current one, is transparently translated to a "between code" that may be completely executed by the interpreter. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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05.Jan.2005
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Software News until January the 5th 2005
BenderIRC 1.5b13
The latest version of the IRC client BenderIRC includes the following changes:
- OpenURL - Plugin ... you requested it now use it :)
- Version string fixed
- ARexx-Plugin has been updated to a full working ARexx port
- Every BenderIRC command like /DCCSEND user file has been adapted in ARexx
The OpenURL plugin "fishes" links from the IRC datastream and passes it to a table,
in which every link is openable by click with your preferred browser.
Link: Homepage
Download: BenderIRC.lha (690 KB)
Megadrive emulator: dgen
"dgen" is an Amiga port of the famous Megadrive emulator.
Download: dgen68k.zip (254 KB)
Hatari 0.50
"Hatari" is an Atari ST emulator using the SDL library. Hatari supports all TOS versionen, offers limited GEM support
and can mount directories of the host computer or emulate a hard disk via disk image.
Link: Homepage of the Linux version
Download: hatari.zip (638 KB)
Report+ 6.16a
The freeware Report+ is released in version 6.16a. The tool uses ReAction/GadTools, requires AmigaOS 3.9 and offers ten different functions.
Download: ReportPlus.lha (306 KB)
BACK-IT-ALL-UP 10.1
With Back-It-All-Up it is possible to create back ups of a hard disk. The software supports up to eight partitions and drives with more than 4 GB,
offers several features and might be run on the Workbench or on its own screen.
Link: Homepage
Download: backitallup101.lha (16 KB) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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05.Jan.2005
MorphZone (website)
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Meridian 2.0 for AmigaOS 3.x and MorphOS released
Guido Mersmann has released version 2.0 of Meridian, a commodity, that allows, like a PDA with writing recognition, the use of virtual
hotkeys for e.g. calling programs. Because start point and direction of a mouse movement are taken into account there are close
to infinite combinations which are freely useable.
With Meridian it is possible to cycle through screens and windows, to close windows, to cancel requesters, to start programs or start
actions by moving the mouse only. That all without visual interface or pop-up menu or dock - only the mouse pointer on the screen.
Features:
- Commodity
- Online help
- Locale support
Download: meridian.lha (246 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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05.Jan.2005
MorphZone (website)
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MorphOS: Version 1.9.7 of the Free Pascal compiler released
The Free Pascal compiler for MorphOS is now up to the latest CVS again with the release of version 1.9.7.
The most significant improvement is the support for libraries by using the SysV ABI.
Now programs written in Pascal may use TinyGL or PowerSDL.
Download: fpc_20050105.lha (2.8 MB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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05.Jan.2005
MorphZone (website)
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MorphOS: Idraw model viewer ldview 0.5 released
ldview is a viewer for Lego Idraw model files ldraw-Format (screenshot).
Requirements:
- MorphOS 1.4 or newer
- Supported 3D gfx card
- tinygl 0.2 or newer (part of MorphOS 1.4)
- Parts of the LDraw 0.27 basic distribution
Download:
ldviewMOS-0.5.lha (23 KB)
ldraw027.zip (1.1 MB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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01.Jan.2005
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Happy New Year!
The team of amiga-news.de wishes all the readers a Happy New Year and all the best for the coming twelve months! We'd be pleased to see you being loyal to amiga-news.de and the Amiga in 2005!
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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01.Jan.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Amiga Demoscene archive: number of productions reaches 430
The Amiga Demoscene archive contains by now a number of more than 430 productions. The latest new entries so far are:
- Profanity/Darkside
- Hyper/Focus Design and Scoopex
- Das EFX/Scoopex
- Lech/Freezers
- Torque/Scoopex
- The Sign/Scoopex
- Voyage/Razor 1911
- R.o.m/Essence
- Death Trial/Mandkind
- Wicked Sensation/TRSI
- We will smash u/TRSI
- 2998z/Darkage
- Toltec 9/Subspace
The logo gallery contains 112 entries. Leading in the charts is (as it is since its first listing in the A.D.A.) Planet Potion; on the second and third place are Megademo 8 by Kefrens and 4k Big! by Ephidrena.
For all interested in the creation of Amiga demos there are discussions in the A.D.A. forum.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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01.Jan.2005
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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MorphOS: ScummVM 0.7.0 and SeventhSense 0.14a released
Grzegorz Kraszewski released version 0.14a of SeventhSense. The update of this detector for changes of websites became necessary as the previous version stopped working after the installation of the datatype replacement MOSMedia. There are no further improvements.
Also updated was ScummVM, the interpreter for the SCUMM games by LucasArts. The MorphOS version 0.7.0 done by Fabien Coeurjoly uses PowerSDL.
Downloads:
SeventhSense-0.14a.lha (88 KB)
scummvm-0.7.0.lha (1.6 MB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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31.Dec.2004
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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SN-FindColour V1.1 published
SN-FindColour is Freeware and meant to find certain colours. Red-, green- and blue-figures
can be set with the help of a scroller and thus the colour will be calculated.
Besides this it is also possible to enter and calculate HTML colour codes.
There is a standard and a MorphOS version (problems with entering fields).
You can find SN-FindColour under "Weitere SN-Archive" on my homepage (title link).
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.Dec.2004
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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Announcement of updates of three SN-Archives
In a few days there will be updates of SN-EuroArchiv and 2in1-Project
SN-MünzenArchiv II and SN-MarkenArchiv II. For SN-Münz-/Marken-Archiv
the HTML-support has been added. Here is a possible
example.
Steffen Nitz: "I wish all Amiga users and the users of SN-Archives and the
game "Die Kleine Gilde II" a Happy New Year!"
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.Dec.2004
David Brunet (ANF)
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Game database: Update of the "Amiga Games List"
The "Amiga Games List" (AGL) has been updated and reworked by David Brunet.
The AGL tries to list all Amiga games in a clear format. The list contains games, editors and
data disks. With 8645 listed games the AGL is the most extensive database for Amiga games.
If you have comments or completions then please contact obligement AT free DOT fr .
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Dec.2004
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)
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Liquid Skies records #081
Today the scene group Liquid Skies publishes its 81st music pack. This time it contains
a song called "Before Tea Time" which was composed by Lcr reworked by Kuadziw.
The cover was created by Kuadziw.
Some further information to the track:
- Title: Before Tea Time
- Artist: Lcr feat. Kuadziw
- Style: Drum'n'bass
- Play time: 5:08
- Format: mp3 @ 160 kbps
- Size: 6 MB (ZIP-packed)
You can download it under the title link.
The LQS-crew wish all people who are interested in music a Happy New Year!
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Dec.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: "Weather" shows information to the weather
"Weather" uses the database of weather.com to
show you current information about the weather on the Workbench (screenshot).
Weather requires the datatype-system MOSMedia which was published a few days ago (amiga-news.de reported).
Download: weather.lha (490 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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