19.Sep.2004
amiga.org (website)
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Wireless network driver beta version released
A beta version of a new wireless network driver is available for download. It supports PCMCIA cards in the A1200/A600 and PCI cards on the AmigaOne.
For potential compatibility information, see Absolute Value System's directory of wireless chipsets. If a card's chipset is listed there as Orinoco, Agere or Prism (except the SSF version) and its bus type is PCMCIA or PCI, it is likely to work. If the card is listed there but doesn't match these requirements, it will definitely not work.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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18.Sep.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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Freeware game: Memo Quick Edition
"Memo QE" written by Simone Bevilacqua is a game based on "Memory" which
requires a 68020 CPU, ECS and AmigaOS 2.04 (screenshots).
Direct download: MeMo_QE.lha (85 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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18.Sep.2004
Timo Kloss (ANF)
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Midi-Sequencer Horny: Version 0.51 published
Here comes a new version of the midi-sequencer called Horny. Using the audio mixer you can
now control up to six midi-controller (e.g. effect-sends) per channel. Thus the mixer
has been completed.
Features in version 0.51:
- Controlling up to 16 midi-ports via CAMD (lite: 1 port)
- Up to 128 tracks (lite: 8 tracks)
- Change of rhythm and time in the song possible
- Piano-editor: Quantisizing, Velocity-compressor, ...
- Controller-editor: Compressor, reducing, smoothing, ...
- Midi-"mixer": VU-Meter, Volume, Pan, 6 further free controller-Potis
- SysEx-management with lots of free sort groups
- Sound-choice via names (not only GeneralMidi but for each synthesizer)
- SMF-import and -export
- Horny data format is up and down compatible
- Autoload-project for self made patterns
- ReAction-GUI for preferences windows
- On Workbench or seperate screen
- Window can be used as backdrop
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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18.Sep.2004
Genesi (E-Mail)
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MySQL user report of Sony International (Europe) mentions Pegasos-Server
An user report (PDF, 518 KB)
of Sony International (Europe) which is accessable under the title link and which is about
the move of Content Management System Filenet, Microsoft SQL and Active Server Pages
to MySQL and PHP also mentions in the section technical environment the
Pegasos server.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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18.Sep.2004
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Poseidon: New USB-class for "CarTFT" Touchscreen
Because of an inquiry by Carsten Siegner Chris Hodges has written an USB driver for
the touchscreen of an Egalax 7"-Car-TFT-Monitors.
Carsten Siegner has published two beta versions of this driver on his homepage. Because
the monitor of the touchscreen of Carsten currently is out of order the driver is not
developed further.
Limitations of the beta version: Debug-Output on the serial interface,
you can not change the work area of the touchscreen.
Direct Download:
68k-Version: egalaxtouch.class.debug
MorphOS-Version: egalaxtouch.class.elf.debu
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.Sep.2004
PPCNUX (ANF)
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Price increase on PegasosPPC-Webshop/Genesi certified MySQL-Partner
The webshop of Genesi has increased
the price for Pegasos II with G3-processor card: the mainboard now costs 600 US-Dollar
instead of 299,- Euro. The G4-system costs with 615 US-Dollar nearly the same as before.
The single price of the processor card is 229 (G3/750CXe) and 249 (G4/7447) US-Dollar.
New in the webshop is the Pegasos-server which is delivered with Linux and preconfigured
with the Debian-versionen from PHP and Apache as well as the current commercial version
of MySQL Pro. The price: 1749 US-Dollar with the G4-version.
MorphOS as well as the account to the superbundle also belong to this offer.
In connection with the popular database-software MySQL yesterday Genesi anounced
in a press release that it is now
Certified Partner
of the Swedish company.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Sep.2004
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Music: "Soothe" from Bjorn Lynne
Björn Lynne (alias "Dr.Awesome") who is responsible for several tracks of Amiga games and demos
has published "Soothe" which is his new album.
The eight tracks (70 minutes) are described as "calming, relaxing and melodious music" by the
author himself. The album is available in the Webshop
of Lynne as audio-CD or as DVD ("Surround Edition", compatible with each
available DVD-Player).
The first 200 copies which will be ordered directly from the composer will have an
individual serial number and have signed with a golden crayon.
The title track "Sooth" is 30 minutes long and thus the longest one on the CD and
can be downloaded under ArtistLaunch
in two versions.
Further information under the title link.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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16.Sep.2004
Tom Duin
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Updates of CDDA_SwapMostLeast & SearchStar
Tom "AmigaHarry" Duin has released new versions of his programs "CDDA_SwapMostLeast" and "SearchStar."
CDDA_SwapMostLeast 1.9
CDDA_SwapMostLeast converts CDDA-data to and from CDDA_MostSignificant- (MOTOROLA) into CDDA_LeastSignificant- (INTEL) format.
The new version (1.9) may now be started from the shell or the Workbench. It's been largely rewritten to eliminate known errors and achieve greater velocity.
SearchStar 0.87
"SearchStar" is a multi-function program that searches your hard-drive for a name or results corresponding to specific search criteria. With this you may select either upper or lower case, additionally SearchStar can replace the results with another designation ("Global Search and Replace").
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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16.Sep.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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"Project: Reality" Website Online
Under the title link you'll find the homepage of "Project: Reality", which dedicates itself to the realization of the "Amiga Fantasy" computer case design by Marko Hirv (picture).
The Amiga 1200-style housing should have room to accomodate the following components:
- Mini-ITX-Board (e.g. µA1)
- Integrated USB keyboard in the Amiga style
- PCI riser card, space for a PCI card
- EIDE hard-drive
- Slimline slot-loading CDROM/DVDROM/Combo-Drive
- opening for the compact Flash slot of the µA1-I
- 60 W fanless netting [I think power supply is meant here, but the word for netting was definitely used -dm]
- External adapter, 110-240 V switchable
They are trying to build a prototype by sometime in the first half of 2005. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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15.Sep.2004
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AmigaOS 4: New uploads at os4depot.net
These are the uploads added to os4depot.net since our last report:
vector.lha (30kb) Small vector routine with 3 cubes rotating
autodocviewer.lha (109kb) Autodoc viewer for OS4
xmamegui.lha (89kb) GUI for the OS4 xMAME port v0.8
xbill_os4.lha (197kb) Port of XBill v2.1 for AmigaOS4
vcdgear176.lha (689kb) MPEG-Video conversion/extraction/repair tool
sambaprefs_1_3.lha (46kb) Configurarion tool for samba server
mixer1_9.lha (76kb) Mixer
pt-player-gui-1-1.lha (43kb) ProTrackerPlayerGui
expat-ppc.lha (380kb) Expat C library for parsing XML
make-ppc.lha (2Mb) GNU make PPC
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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15.Sep.2004
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Amiga games museum: amigamemo.com
At amigamemo.com a collector exhibits his collection of Amiga games. For many famous titles there are box scans, detailed information and screen shots available.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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15.Sep.2004
Richad Kapp (ANF)
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Media: derstandard.at reports about PocketUAE
The Austrian online news magazine 'derstandard.at' reports about PocketUAE, the PocketPC version of the Amiga emulator UAE, by the title link (amiga-news.de reported). Screen shots are also shown. Further information regarding this UAE version is available at the PocketUAE web site. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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15.Sep.2004
Pegasosforum (Website)
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MorphOS: Devedie and KeyMorpher updated
At the 'Pegasosforum' there are updates available for the DVD player GUI Devedie for MPlayer as well as for the keymap editor KeyMorpher.
The keymap editor KeyMorpher by Vladimir Javorski offers with version 0.095 a new graphic user interface and a possibility to edit 'dead' keys.
The also by Vladimir Javorski written GUI for DVD playback supports with version 0.5.6 now also version 1.0 of the movie player MPlayer. Additional a menu item, 'PlayFile', has been added and the 'DragBar' menu bug has been removed. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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15.Sep.2004
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: OpenTTD 0.3.4 released
OpenTTD is a clone of Transport Tycoon Deluxe, a popular game originally
written by Chris Sawyer. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely
as possible while extending it with new features.
The new version comes with several smaller and bigger changes.
New Features:
- Added more translations
- Add: Generalised A* Algorithm
- Add: Generalised queues (Fifo, Stack, InsSort, BinaryHeap)
- "None" as option for number of industries in difficulty settings
- Add many random industries and towns in scenario editor
- Added level land button to scenario editor (Chris Huebsch)
- Added never_expire_vehicles to patches GUI (Chris Huebsch)
- Added new icons for landscaping toolbar (drawn by sign_de)
- Align toolbar left/center/right patch (TrueLight)
- All TTDLX kind of savegames are supported (.SS1, .SV1, .SV2, .SV0, .SS0).
- Alpha version of a new AI (TrueLight)
- Autodetect server in LAN via udp (Sign)
- Build_date of station (viewable with Query tool)
- Company HQ can now be moved somewhere else (cost 1% of company value). Water floods HQ.
- Competitors menu under patches
- Copy/share orders now works from ship depot window for ships and hangar window for aircraft
- Difficulty settings window has been changed (Darkvater)
- Enable/disable all buttons in message settings
- Executable is now openttd(.exe) always
- Ingame console (sign_de)
- Invalid (void) orders in schedule are highlighted in red (Celestar)
- Invisible trees when in transparent mode (patch entry)
- Option to sort vehicles in vehicle-list window by different criteria.
- Proper crediting to graphics artists to about box.
- Removing town roads has been finetuned.
- Terraforming toolbar (in the plant tree menu)
- Working multiplayer gui (sign_de)
- etc.
Fixes:
- A lot of network fixing (sign_de)
- A lot of old AI fixed
- Autosave folder was not created on MorphOS
- Coast line near edge of map and near oilrigs (Dribbel)
- Delete canal under bridge wasn't possible
- Error message for 'game load failed' when no town is in a scenario
- Game not pausing when saveload dialog is clicked in main menu
- Load Scenario fix
- Memory leak in news system (blathijs)
- Monorail/maglev became available around 1927
- Move around sort-widgets a bit so it looks more natural
- Old scenarios have correct colour
- Placing/editing signs is possible in paused mode
- Playing new game with scenarios in windows works
- Problems around exclusive transport rights (Celestar)
- Railroad crossings on slopes are now possible
- Random crash when player-face was displayed in error-dialog
- Rare mousewheel scrolling with scrollbar crash
- Road vehicles don't get stuck any more at stations (Truelight + Celestar)
- Savegames are sorted with newest date first by default
- Scenario editor now asks before it generates a random landscape
- Slopes graphics fix (dominik)
- Starting a new game in DesertLandscape crashed the game
- Stupid bug in company league window if non-player is first
- Wrong building of road-slopes for a future AI/Town
- Wrong pathfinding when northern station tile is missing (blathijs)
- You cannot take ownership of an oilrig by building right next to it
- [SDL] Performance fix for palette animation and mouse jumping (jirif)
- [SDL] Same resolution was displayed more than once in game options
- [SDL] Smoother mouse and performance fix, like in Win32 (jirif)
- etc.
For a full list of changes, new features and fixes have a look to the Changelog inside the archive.
Before you can run OpenTTD, you need the following files from the original Windows version of Transport Tycoon Deluxe as OpenTTD makes use of the original TTD artwork: sample.cat, trg1r.grf, trgcr.grf, trghr.grf, trgir.grf, trgtr.grf.
The archive for MorphOS and other systems can be downloaded from the title link. (snx)
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14.Sep.2004
Elbox Computer (ANF)
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Elbox: Mediator Multimedia CD update 1.26 supports further TV cards
Elbox Computer is pleased to have completed development of drivers for a series of new TV card models, these drivers being released today. See the Mediator Driver Guide for the current list of PCI TV cards supported in MEDIATOR busboards. The MM CD 1.26 update is free for all registered Mediator Multimedia CD users.
Additionally, the new tv.library ver. 4.0 has added Stereo-NICAM TV sound processing for TV cards fitted with a single-chip Digital TV Sound Demodulator-Decoder TDA9874A by Philips.
The new library has added processing of the new Front End by YMEC: TVision 5V TVF-8533B/DF. These Front Ends are installed in the latest Prolink TV cards, e.g. in the now-supported PixelView PlayTV Pro MPEG (model M4800). New Front Ends are much more sensitive than those fitted in older TV card models. Quality of the broadcast is now excellent, even when the antenna signal is relatively weak.
The new library has added processing of the new radio sets installed in the latest TV cards. These are single-chip, digitally tuned FM stereo radio sets TEA5767 by Philips.
To ensure handling new radio sets, the API of tv.library was expanded. The current developer's documentation (ver. 4.0) is available from the Mediator Multimedia CD 1.26. The new tv.library is compatible backwards with all the previous tv.library functions maintained. As a result, the current versions of TV card control GUI -- like TvR and SuperTV -- work with the new tv.library without any modifications.
The MM CD 1.26 update includes also the new driver for Fast Ethernet 10/100Mbps cards. The FastEthernet.device ver. 1.15 driver has been reworked for AmigaOS4 compatibility.
Info on the current versions is available in the DOWNLOADS | Mediator section. The current list of supported PCI cards is available in the Mediator Driver Guide. The info about Mediator-related sources you will find in the COMMUNITY section. (snx)
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11.Sep.2004
Dirk "Docki" Dockbreyder (ANF)
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Atari: New old game console
Atari will produce the game console 7800 again. But probably only for the
US-market. There the console
Flashback
(picture)
will be available for about 45 US-Dollar from November on.
The console will be delivered with two joysticks and cable for connecting it with
a television set. 20 games are preinstalled. Additionally to the known ones "Saboteur"
is a formerly not published game. Here is a list with the games:
- Adventure
- Air Sea Battle
- Asteroids
- Battlezone
- Breakout
- Canyon Bomber
- Centipede
- Crystal Castles
- Desert Falcon
- Food Fight
- Gravitar
- Haunted House
- Millipede
- Planet Smashers
- Saboteur
- Sky Diver
- Solaris
- Sprintmaster
- Warlords
- Yar\s Revenge
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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11.Sep.2004
amiga-fan (ANF)
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Hyperion: Betatesting of the update of OS4-developer preversion started (Update)
According to Ben Hermans on Amigaworld.net yesterday the beta testing of the first update
of the developer preversion of AmigaOS4 was started.
The update for registered OS4-users will have about 30 MB. Should this size of the archive for anybody means a problem this can be solved.
Update: (20:04, 11.09.04, snx)
As Hans-Jörg Frieden (Hyperion) notifies us, the betatest that started yesterday night actually already concerns the installation CD. The individual components of the update are being tested a much longer time already. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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11.Sep.2004
ANN (Website)
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MorphOS: Bugfix-release 0.6a of picture viewer Showgirls published
Michal 'kiero' Wozniak has published a minor update which fixes bugs of the
version 0.6 of the picture viewer Showgirls
(amiga-news.de reported).
Bugs have been fixed in relation with:
- List/Thumbnails-mark in menu
- loading of files which are too big for the memory (caused a crash)
- the tolerance for damaged JPEG-files (was increased)
- change of the screen in full screen modus when choosing the drive (workaround for the causing bug in MorphOS 1.4 added)
Download: ShowGirls-0.6a.lha (270 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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