28.Dec.2008
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Graphic program: SView5 2.61
Andreas Kleinert's picture editing software SView5 is specially meant for automated editing and converting of big amounts of pictures.
The current update includes minor adaptations and bugfixes. Additionally it is now offcially confirmed that it works under AmigaOS 4.
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28.Dec.2008
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Database: MUIbase 2.7
Steffen Gutmann has published an update of his database MUIbase. Changes in version 2.7:
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[News message: 28. Dec. 2008, 18:42] [Comments: 0]
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28.Dec.2008
Pegasosforum.de (Forum)
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MorphOS: Bounty-project of an Instant Messenger started
A Bounty-program of the Pegasosforum for an Instant Messenger was started. Under the title link the project was described in detail and started by Marcin Kielesinski. The author is developing an messenger called BrainWasher. The current bounty balance is 42 Euro.
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27.Dec.2008
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Sputnik-bounties will be payed back
According to Troels Ersking who is the initiator of a bounty program which should adapt the Sputnik to AmigaOS 4, he canceled this program and hopes to pay back the bounties until the end of the year.
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[News message: 27. Dec. 2008, 11:43] [Comments: 0]
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26.Dec.2008
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: MilkyTracker 0.90.80
Milkytracker is a fully compatible clone of ProTracker and FastTracker II but has a highly improved editor. Paolo Besser has now compiled the program for AROS/x86 (screenshot).
Download:
milkytracker-0.90.80-aros-i386.tgz (5 MB)
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[News message: 26. Dec. 2008, 17:34] [Comments: 0]
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26.Dec.2008
PPA (Webseite)
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MorphOS: XMLViewer 0.9
Michal 'rzookol' Zukowski's XMLViewer is a little MUI-program based on the expat.library which can view XML-files under MorphOS 2.x (screenshot). Under MorphOS 1.4.x it may work as well if you use the MUI-class aboutbox.mcc but it has been not tested.
Download: xmlviewer.lha (159 KB)
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26.Dec.2008
Ivan Teskera, VooDoo (ANF)
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Amiga-portal VooDoo accessible under old address again
The probably only Amiga news portal of the Balkans, called VooDoo, can be now accessed again under its original address voodoo-amiga.com.
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[News message: 26. Dec. 2008, 09:21] [Comments: 0]
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26.Dec.2008
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: DVD-Engine 0.2
Carsten Siegner's DVD-Engine is an user-interface for a lot of existing command line programs which is supposed to make it more easy to create video or picture-DVDs. Now alpha version 0.2 is available which the author decribed in this way:
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[News message: 26. Dec. 2008, 09:09] [Comments: 0]
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25.Dec.2008
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Metacompiler: PortablE r3
Christopher Handley's Metacompiler PortablE translates the programming language E to other ones. Through this big E-programs are supposed to be converted in such a format that they can be compiled on more platforms.
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24.Dec.2008
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Amiga-News wishes Merry Christmas!
The team of Amiga-News wishes all Amiga-Fans a Merry Christmas as well as a Hyppy New Year 2009! We would like to thank all readers for the loyalty and all advertisers and donators for the financial support during the last twelve months!
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24.Dec.2008
a1k.org (Webseite)
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X-Copy X-Mas Edition 93 (jubilee edition 2008)
The software developers Cachet (X-Copy, Cyclone..) had provided a special service for all customers who bought the "service-package": These customers got a special Christmas version of X-Copy. The last known version of "X-Copy X-Mas Edition" was developed in 1993.
On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of this X-Mas edition it was released as a jubilee edition for free download. The disk contains X-Copy as well as Cyclone, CCIS and a little demo.
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24.Dec.2008
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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E-Mail-Client: SimpleMail 0.33
It has always been a tradition: At Christmas a new update of the eMail program SimpleMail is published. The changes of version 0.33 are listed under the title link.
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[News message: 24. Dec. 2008, 17:11] [Comments: 0]
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24.Dec.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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UAE: Theme Switcher 2 for AmiKit
Theme Switcher for the UAE-distribution AmiKit includes five themes which includes start pictures, screen background pictures, window frames and pictures for the start button.
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[News message: 24. Dec. 2008, 14:22] [Comments: 0]
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24.Dec.2008
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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E3B wishes Merry Christmas!
Press release E3B wishes all Amiga users a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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[News message: 24. Dec. 2008, 12:55] [Comments: 0]
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24.Dec.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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WBSudoku 1.5.1
WBSudoku is a computer version of the well-known logic puzzle Sudoku. In version 1.5.1 highscores and a statistic were added.
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24.Dec.2008
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: SabreMSN 0.38
James 'jahc' Carroll has published a new update of his Instant Messenger for the MSN-network for AmigaOS 3.x and AmigaOS 4. Tabs for chats were implemented (screenshot). Further changes are listed in the changelog.
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[News message: 24. Dec. 2008, 07:45] [Comments: 0]
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23.Dec.2008
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Game developer Factor 5 went bankrupt
Factor 5 is known as famous games developer for the Amiga - for example the Turrican-serie, Katakis/Denaris or the Amiga-version of R-Type.
For a few weeks there are rumors about financial embarrassments. There is not any official confirmation but several news agencies announced that last Friday Factor 5 was closed relating on insider information.
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23.Dec.2008
Niels Schapke (ANF)
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Insane-Software: New Support-Forum online
Press release: Insane-Software offers a new support forum. Because we installed an improved forum software we could not use the old databases (articles and users).
In this forum you can find support to existing and forthcoming games and programs developed by Insane-Software. Additionally you are very welcome to upload your highscore lists.
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[News message: 23. Dec. 2008, 16:24] [Comments: 0]
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23.Dec.2008
OS4Depot.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 3.1
Jörg Strohmayer has started adapting the latest version of Origyn Web Browser, called Galekid, to AmigaOS 4. It is a combination of WebKit and the Sand-Labs-variation.
Download: owb.lha (11 MB)
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[News message: 23. Dec. 2008, 12:31] [Comments: 0]
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22.Dec.2008
HelmutH (ANF)
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Alinea Computer: Software-Updates, Christmas Holidays
Press release: We want to thank all our customers and partners and all the other people who have supported us over the last year. Because of this we want to release some updates with customer requested features for our products.
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[News message: 22. Dec. 2008, 22:13] [Comments: 0]
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22.Dec.2008
Amiga Forever Team (ANF)
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Amiga Forever: Facebook Page and Videos
Press release Just in time for the holidays, we set up a Facebook page dedicated to Amiga Forever, and uploaded a first set of two videos: Lemmings at Denver DevCon and The Secret in Hangar AE. Please refer to the videos for full credits.
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[News message: 22. Dec. 2008, 19:35] [Comments: 0]
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22.Dec.2008
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Aminet-Uploads until 21.12.2008
These are the latest Aminet-uploads which have been added since our last message:
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[News message: 22. Dec. 2008, 17:13] [Comments: 0]
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22.Dec.2008
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 21.12.2008
These are the latest uploads to os4depot.net which have been added since our last message:
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22.Dec.2008
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AROS-Archives: Uploads until 21.12.2008
These are the latest uploads to AROS-Archives which have been added since our last message:
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[News message: 22. Dec. 2008, 17:12] [Comments: 0]
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22.Dec.2008
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Minimig: Hardfile-Emulation in progress
The Minimig developer "yaqube" is working on an emulation of so called hardfiles for the Minimig. Hardfiles are images of Amiga-harddrives which uses the emulator UAE. At Youtube a video was published which shows the developer loading the Workbench on his Minimig from harddrive and then starting some installed games.
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[News message: 22. Dec. 2008, 15:19] [Comments: 0]
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22.Dec.2008
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Event: Pictures from C= Show
On 20th December in Maarssen (Holland) the "C= Show" of the Commodore Gebruikers Groep (CGG) took place. On the website of this group some pictures were published.
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[News message: 22. Dec. 2008, 14:51] [Comments: 0]
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22.Dec.2008
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: AbiWord 2.6.2 for AmiCygnix
For the X11-environment AmiCygnix a compatible port of the word processing software AbiWord 2.6.2 was published. The main changes:
- Proper working languages
- Supporting Gnome-Office-diagrams
- Loading Multipart HTML-files (.mht)
- Loading IFF-ILBM-graphics
- Bugfixes
A German catalog is included, further ones will follow soon.
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[News message: 22. Dec. 2008, 14:48] [Comments: 0]
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22.Dec.2008
Amiga Arena (ANF)
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Graphic-Adventure: German CD-version of Aqua online
At the beginning of 2007 the graphic adventure Aqua was released. Now for the first time there is a German CD-version of the game which has been published in cooperation with Fun Time World and which can be now downloaded at Amiga Arena. Fun Time World and the Amiga Arena wish much fun and a Merry Christmas.
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[News message: 22. Dec. 2008, 13:09] [Comments: 0]
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21.Dec.2008
Martin "DaFreak" Rebentisch (ANF)
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Musik: Liquid Skies records #106 (XMAS Special)
Yesterday the scene group Liquid Skies published its 106th musicpack. This time it includes a music track in Jazz-style which Konrad Lukaszewicz played. The cover was created by DaFreak.
- Title: So Much Of U
- Musicans: Konrad
- Style: Jazz
- Play time: 2:17
- Format: MP3, 160kbps
- Size: 2.7 MB
With this release the group wants to say thank you and wishes all Merry Christmas.
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[News message: 21. Dec. 2008, 15:20] [Comments: 0]
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21.Dec.2008
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: X11-environment AmiCygnix 1.0
AmiCygnix (the previous beta versions were called "Cygnix") is a X11-environment and makes it possible to launch Unix-applications under AmigaOS with only few changes at the source code (screenshot).
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[News message: 21. Dec. 2008, 10:13] [Comments: 0]
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21.Dec.2008
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 2.20
Jörg Strohmayer has published an update of his port of the Origyn Web Browser. The changes in version 2.20:
- Some more small font tweaks, for example at 13px the bold Arial got a different size than the regular one
- Updated curl-ca-bundle.crt
- Reenabled drawing and scrolling optimisations while a page is still loading since it didn't fix the problems on AmigaOS 4.0
- Disabled progress bar when running on AmigaOS 4.0, it didn't test it but maybe that fixes the freezes
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[News message: 21. Dec. 2008, 02:25] [Comments: 0]
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21.Dec.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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MorphOS 2.2 published
Press release: The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 2.2, a free update for users of MorphOS 2.1 and 2.0. In addition to numerous bug fixes, MorphOS 2.2 includes additional optimizations and new features such asKryptos, a "disk encryption suite". For an overview of the included changes, please read our release notes.
A description of the hardware requirements and installation procedures can be found here. MorphOS 2.2 is available for download in our files section.
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20.Dec.2008
Amiga Forever Team (ANF)
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Amiga Forever 2008 Value Edition: New Version, Content and Price
Press release When Amiga Forever 2008 was released less than six months ago, it was accompanied by a name change in the entry level edition: the former Online Edition was renamed Value Edition. This was to signal another change further along the road, which was put into practice today.
Amiga Forever Value Edition has been repositioned to focus on content that can be played back in version 1.3 ROM and Workbench environments (whereas the Plus and Premium editions also include all other versions from 1.0 to 3.x). More than 70% of the thousands of games available for legal download from their original publishers and from Amiga preservation sites can be run with the new Value Edition.
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[News message: 20. Dec. 2008, 18:33] [Comments: 0]
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20.Dec.2008
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: MPlayer ported
Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Smiechowicz has adapted Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly's MorphOS-port of the video play program MPlayer to AROS/x86 (screenshot).
The AROS-version supports 3dnow and recognizes the used processor. SSE/SSE2 is being not supported. The sound output also is limited: The modi s16be and s17le work while others (24, 32, ac3) does not. If you have some "problem videos" then please send them to the author. Furthermore the WMV- and ASF-files can be played in the native AROS-version but cannot played on hosted versions.
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[News message: 20. Dec. 2008, 11:25] [Comments: 0]
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20.Dec.2008
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Amitopia TV: Christmas special (week 51) online
Amitopia TV is an English video magazine about the Amiga. The topics of this issue include a MPlayer review, a report about the Amiga 1000 and a guide for TVPaint.
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20.Dec.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: hpdf.library 1.0 / mng.library 1.1
Ilkka Lehtoranta has ported the libHaru-library for creating PDF-files with MorphOS 2.x.
Additionally the mng.library is available in version 1.1. Multi-Image Network Graphics is a format which describes animated graphic files. The library requires MorphOS 2.x as well as thelittlecms.library.
Download:
hpdf.lha (1 MB)
mnglib.lha (347 KB)
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[News message: 20. Dec. 2008, 10:22] [Comments: 0]
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20.Dec.2008
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: FLAC-Player for AmiNetRadio (Update)
Under the title link Jacek 'jacaDcaps' Piszczek has published a FLAC-player for AmiNetRadio. The Plug-in is available in two versions (with and without Altivec-support) and supports 16-Bit-Stereo files as well as meta data.
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[News message: 20. Dec. 2008, 10:06] [Comments: 0]
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20.Dec.2008
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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MorphOS: Current MemTest-speeds of Mac-Mini-version
Under the title link Jacek Piszczek has published the current speed figures for writing in the main and graphic board memory under the MorphOS-version for Apple's Mac Mini which is being developed.
Comparing models with 1,5-GHz-processor, 1,42 GHz (both equipped with Radeon 9200) and a Pegasos 2 wit 1 GHz which is equipped with the Pro version of the graphic board. The Mac Mini gained about 740 (main memory) and 175 MB/second (graphic board memory) while the Pegasos gained 440 and 210 MB.
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[News message: 20. Dec. 2008, 09:50] [Comments: 0]
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20.Dec.2008
Mupfman (ANF)
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Symphonic Fantasies: Video games concert on 12. September 2009
The WDR-concert with compositions from computer and video games will be continued with "Symphonic Fantasies" on 12th September 2009.
On the same weekend the games convention GamesCon will take place in Cologne.
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20.Dec.2008
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Commodore-Emulator: VICE 2.1 for all Amiga-Systems
VICE emulates almost all 8-Bit-systems by Commodore. Ports are available for AmigaOS 3/4, AROS (x86, PPC, x86-64) and MorphOS. Version 2.1 includes now an emulation of the C64 DTV.
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[News message: 20. Dec. 2008, 04:56] [Comments: 0]
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19.Dec.2008
TerAtoM (ANF)
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"Symphonic Shades"-CD delivered yesterday
The first customers have got the latest CD of Chris Hülsbeck's "Symphonic Shades". At 4Sceners.de there is a detailed report which explained the history of the development (in German).
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[News message: 19. Dec. 2008, 14:38] [Comments: 0]
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19.Dec.2008
Hollywood-ML
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HFinder 1.1 released
Fabio Falcucci writes: As a final test for the ScuiLib functionality, I have released the version 1.1 of HFinder, a tool you can use to search files. With the resulting files you can make basic operations like copy, move or erase.
This version has been compiled with the latest ScuiLib version, now
the application has a resizeable GUI, an optimized search routine and, thanks to Michael Jurisch, a German translation.
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[News message: 19. Dec. 2008, 07:41] [Comments: 0]
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18.Dec.2008
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser Netsurf 2.0dev (beta)
NetSurf is a fast browser which was originally developed for RiscOS. It works from 17 MB memory on and supports HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.1 but it does not Javascript. The development of a library was recently started.
For some days there is a new beta version of the program. If you already have installed an older beta version of Netsurf you have to add the line "screen_depth:32" in the file resources/options.
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[News message: 18. Dec. 2008, 17:41] [Comments: 0]
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18.Dec.2008
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AmigaOS 4: Battle for Wesnoth 1.4.6
The AmigaOS 4 port of the turn-based strategy game Battle for Wesnoth is now available in the latest version 1.4.6.
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[News message: 18. Dec. 2008, 14:38] [Comments: 0]
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17.Dec.2008
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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Greek Amiga-Portal: amigaplanet.gr
Amiga Planet is a Greek portal for Amiga and MorphOS users. The development of the page has not completely been finished.
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[News message: 17. Dec. 2008, 16:22] [Comments: 0]
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17.Dec.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaAnywhere: Amiga Cool Tools
Under the label "Amiga Cool Tools" Amiga Inc. offers some little tools for Windows Mobile which can be bought in the Amiga-Shop for 0,99 USD.
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[News message: 17. Dec. 2008, 15:40] [Comments: 0]
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17.Dec.2008
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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C= Show on 20th December, winner of innovation price voting
On Saturday the 20th December the Commodore Gebruikers Groep (CGG) will organize the annual "Christmas-C= Show" in Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21, Maarssen (Netherlands). There will be a Commodore flea market as well as a Commodore -lottery.
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16.Dec.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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UAE: AmiKit 1.5.3
AmiKit is a complete distribution for UAE-users and is now available in version 1.5.3. It can be installed with the Live-Update if it has been already installed.
The changes are listed in the Changelog.
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[News message: 16. Dec. 2008, 18:08] [Comments: 0]
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16.Dec.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Simple DirectMedia Layer 1.2.13
For AmigaOS the port of the Simple DirectMedia Layer was published in version 1.2.13. SDL makes it more easy adapting applications and games to different platforms. Under the title link Bernd Roesch has summarized the changes of the update.
Download page (1 MB)
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[News message: 16. Dec. 2008, 18:04] [Comments: 0]
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16.Dec.2008
Pegasosforum (Webseite)
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MorphOS: MPlayer 1.0-svn-r28114
Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly has published an update of his MorphOS-port of MPlayer.It includes support of the versions 9 and 10 of the RealVideo-format and improvements of the graphical user-interface.
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[News message: 16. Dec. 2008, 17:42] [Comments: 0]
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16.Dec.2008
Vinnny (ANF)
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MorphOS: FUSE 0.10.0
FUSE is an emulator for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and is now also available for MorphOS in version 0.10.0. YHave a look at the official project site for the detailed changes.
Download: fuse_0.10.0_morphos.lha (4 MB)
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[News message: 16. Dec. 2008, 17:31] [Comments: 0]
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16.Dec.2008
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Preview of issue 76 online (January/February 2009)
Press release The preview and excerpts of the Amiga Future 76 (Januar/Februar 2009) are online now. In this issue you will find reviews of the recent version of AmigaOS 4.1, Netpanzers, Amy Cygnix, AISS and much more. A more detailed description of contents and some excerpts can be found at the title link.
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[News message: 16. Dec. 2008, 17:18] [Comments: 0]
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15.Dec.2008
Christoph Hahn (ANF)
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AROS-Distribution VmwAROS 1.0
VmwAROS is an AROS-distribution (screenshot) which includes some preinstalled applications like FryingPan or SimpleMail. The distribution was completed by some batch scripts (PoorPDF, AmiBridge, PoorARC) which are supposed to balance out the lack of applications under AROS by a simple UAE-integration or on-the-fly format-conversions.
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[News message: 15. Dec. 2008, 16:15] [Comments: 0]
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14.Dec.2008
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: DVD-Mastering with DVD-Engine (alpha)
Carsten Siegner's DVD-Engine is an user-interface for 10 already published programs which is supposed to make creating video- or picture-DVDs more easy. Currently stereo DVDs are supported, 5.1 Dolby Digital is planned for the next version.
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13.Dec.2008
Amiga Forever Team (ANF)
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Amiga Forever Live: Video and chat-log available
On December 4, a Streaming Meetup was hosted by Cloanto's Amiga Forever team (amiga-news.de reported).
At the title link, an HD version of the video and a partial chat history are available. The organizers would like to thank all participiants and wish happy holidays.
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12.Dec.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Audio-Player: AmiTunes 0.4 (beta)
AmiTunes is a music manager written in AmiBlitz which is similar to Apple's iTunes. The current version only requires a middle performed Amiga (graphic boards are not supported) with a MAS-player. Versions with Reaction- or MUI-GUI will be published later.
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11.Dec.2008
Michael Götz (ANF)
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"Symphonic Shades"-CD one week later
According to Matthias Ziegs from MAZ Sound Tools the delivery of the Symphonic Shades-CD will delay for one week.
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10.Dec.2008
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Aminet-Uploads until 09.12.2008
These are the latest uploads to Aminet which have been added since our last message:
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10.Dec.2008
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 09.12.2008
These are the latest uploads to os4depot.net which have been added sine our last message:
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10.Dec.2008
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AROS-Archives: Uploads until 09.12.2008
These are the latest uploads to AROS-Archives which have been added sine our last message:
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[News message: 10. Dec. 2008, 22:42] [Comments: 0]
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10.Dec.2008
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: OWB-Port
Stanislaw Szymczyk has started the bounty project with 989 US-Dollar and 141 Euro where he has to port an Open-Source browser to AROS. He has published a first screenshot. He will port the Origyn Web Browser and will finish it until 1st of March.
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[News message: 10. Dec. 2008, 21:48] [Comments: 0]
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10.Dec.2008
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Screenshot-Quiz: Kickstart-Switcher
The British Amiga-portal classicamiga.com has organized a screenshot-quiz. There you can win a Kickstart ROM Switcher v2.0. You only have to register at classicamiga.com and to recognize the screenshots.
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10.Dec.2008
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Giana Sisters Remake for Nintendo DS announced
The author of Giana Sisters, Armin Gessert, will publish together with his "Spellbound Studios" a reworked remake of the game in April 2009 for the Nintendos Handheld DS.
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09.Dec.2008
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Event: Report and pictures of AmiCon
Last weekend the second "AmiCon Party" took place in Pomaz (Hungary). In a short report at amigaworld.net "Cobra" told that additional to Classic Hardware different AmigaOne-, Sam440ep-, Pegasos- and Efika-Setups were to be seen.
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[News message: 09. Dec. 2008, 16:01] [Comments: 0]
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09.Dec.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Sam440ep: Firmware-Update U-Boot 1.3.1
ACube Systems is pleased to announce the release of a new version of U-Boot firmware for its line of motherboards Sam440ep. With this new release a number of problems have been fixed together with the adding of Dual Graphic Cards support.
For further information please have a look under the title link
Downloads:
UBoot 1.3.1 updater
Dual Graphic Card support
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09.Dec.2008
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Firewire-Stack announced
Guillaume "Yomgui" Roguez has announced in his French blog that he is developing a Firewire- (IEEE1394-) stack for MorphOS.
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09.Dec.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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ARexx-Script: Workbench 2 Front
"Workbench 2 Front" are ARexx-scripts which put the Workbench window in the foreground.
Download: wb2front.lha (44 KB)
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08.Dec.2008
Amiga.org (website)
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Cubic IDE: Christmas Special
Press release As is tradition, Cubic can be acquired at a drastically reduced price for a few dark days before Christmas - take advantage of it while stock lasts and get your complete package for HTML editing and software development (AmigaOS, MorphOS).
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[News message: 08. Dec. 2008, 21:36] [Comments: 0]
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08.Dec.2008
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 2.18
Jörg Strohmayer has published a new version of his port of the Origyn Web Browser. The changes in detail:
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[News message: 08. Dec. 2008, 00:42] [Comments: 0]
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07.Dec.2008
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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San Francisco Chronicle: Short report about Dale Luck
Already one year ago the newspaper San Francisco Chronicle reported about the collection of slot machines of the Amiga developer Dale Luck who currently is developing an anti-spam-software.
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[News message: 07. Dec. 2008, 12:40] [Comments: 0]
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06.Dec.2008
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Full version: Protext 6.6
Protext is a word processor developed by Arnor until around 1995 which does not use a WYSIWYG. approach. All versions of Protext, including the Amiga port, are now available for free download.
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06.Dec.2008
Amiga Arena (ANF)
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Amiga Arena: New tools online
The Amiga Arena offers further full versions: The program "MenuDesigner" written by Holger Kasten was added and the following applications are available again:
- Astrologic
- CruncherInterface (packer)
- FiloFax Pro (date planner)
- VirtualFloppy (disk emulation)
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06.Dec.2008
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Emulator: PSPUAE Fame/C-Edition
PSPUAE is a version of the well-known Amiga emulator E-UAE for Sony's portable game console PSP.
The PSPUAE Fame/C-edition works faster as the original PSPUAE but is more unstable and savestates of Fame/C-edition are not compatible to the ones of the normal PSPUAE-version. Currently PSPUAE Fame/C is not developed further. For further information please have a look at the readme-files in the archive.
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06.Dec.2008
Alinea Computer (ANF)
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St. Nicholas' Day at Alinea Computer
Press release Wehrheim, Germany, December 06th, 2008 - We would like to wish all AmigaOS 4 users a very nice St. Nicholas day and we want to treat you this day with the freeware tool called AmiArc. This is a tool for packing and unpacking archives for AmigaOS 4.x. If you have suggestions for improvements then we'll hope that you send us a mail.
In the future we will also support the new AmigaOS 4.1 features. That means that it's possible that we will publish our programs in both an AmigaOS 4.0 and an AmigaOS 4.1 version with new 4.1 features.
Furthermore we will keep in touch with the Amiga community. Because of this, we will visit as many Amiga events as possible. On our event page you can find some impressions of past Amiga events.
We wish all amiga fans a great St. Nicholas day.
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05.Dec.2008
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS Developer Connection: New URL
The developer site called MorphOS Developer Connection has moved and can be now accessed under developer.morphzone.org.
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[News message: 05. Dec. 2008, 22:05] [Comments: 0]
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05.Dec.2008
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Event: AIConf suspended
The event AIConf (Alternative Italian Conference) which should take place tomorrow in Italian Papozze had to be suspended because of technical problems. There is not an alternate date.
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[News message: 05. Dec. 2008, 21:55] [Comments: 0]
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04.Dec.2008
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #105
The scene group Liquid Skies has published its 105. Musicpack. This time it includes a music track called "Nation Of Science" which was composed by Lcr and edited by Kuadziw. It is a mix from dark electro and club music. The cover was created by DaFreak.
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[News message: 04. Dec. 2008, 18:22] [Comments: 0]
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04.Dec.2008
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Creating diagrams with dot 2.18
"dot" is part of the Graphviz-package ("Graph Visualization") and creates diagrams from aus structured information (example). The MorphOS-port was compiled by Guillaume "Yomgui" Roguez.
The MorphOS-archive only includes the binary. Additionally a distribution from the official Graphviz-website is required.
Download: dot-2.18-morphos.lha (670 KB)
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03.Dec.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Amitopia TV: December-issue ("Week 49") online
Amitopia TV is an English video magazine about the Amiga. Fom now on the magazine will be published weekly. Each issue will be called with the current number of the week.
Latest issue at Google-Video
Latest issue at Vimeo
Download of the AVI-file at Vimeo
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03.Dec.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Atari-Emulator Hatari 1.1.0
Hatari is a SDL-based Atari-ST-emulator. The changes in version 1.1.0 are listed in the Readme.
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03.Dec.2008
scacom.de.vu (ANF)
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PDF-Magazine: SCACOM Aktuell, issue 9
SCACOM.aktuell is a free PDF-magazine which is about the home computers developed by Commodore.
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03.Dec.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Adventure-Creator: Inga as free download
Inga is an adventure engine with complete developer tools with which you can create "Point'n Click Adventures" like "Monkey Island". Inga has the following features:
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02.Dec.2008
Amiga Forever Team (ANF)
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Amiga Forever Live: Streaming Meetup on Thursday
Press release: When Amiga events were more frequent and lots of people attended, it was a pleasure to meet in person. As software developers, we could better understand what features we should work on, and our users could often better appreciate the challenges we faced ourselves. At the end, we would both learn and make new friends.
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02.Dec.2008
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Forum: Minimig.net
Additional to the Minimig-Support-Forum provided by VMC there is now another forum called Minimig.net which is about the Amiga-500-clone Minimig developed by Dennis van Weeren.
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01.Dec.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AROS for AmigaOS: Bugfixes for AfA 4.3
Bernd Rösch's "AROS für AmigaOS" (AfA) is a port of single AROS-components to AmigaOS.
Because with the last published update AfA 4.3 the menu was not correctly displayed at screens with 8-Bit (or lower), the author has published an update of the graphics.library.
There is a similar bug at 16 or 24-Bit screens. This is fixed by the installation of a reworked intuition.library.
Direct download:
graphics_lib.zip (100 KB)
intuition_lib.zip (130 KB)
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01.Dec.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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ACube: Second Charge Sam440ep-motherboards will be delivered
Press release: ACube Systems announces the availability of a new charge of Sam440ep-motherboards. During the next days the product will be available at our traders.
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01.Dec.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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amigabounty.net: Status-Update to Sputnik and Allegro
The AmigaOS 4 specific bounty site amigabounty.net was reworked and offers now the possibility to pay money for software projects, to suggest software projects or to get an overview about the current "Bounties".
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[News message: 01. Dec. 2008, 17:57] [Comments: 0]
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01.Dec.2008
amiga.org (Webseite)
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"Xmas"-Theme for AmigaSYS-users
The author of the AmigaOS-distribution AmigaSYS has published a Xmas-theme which includes pictograms and background pictures with Christmas contents.
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01.Dec.2008
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Web-Browser: OWB 1.4 for AmigaOS 3
Jörg Strohmayer has published an update of his port of the Web-browser OWB. Please note that this port includes the older "Blastoise"-version of OWB. Additionally the OS3-version requires at least an (emulated) 68k-CPU with 500 Mhz. There are several limitations and the version requires several external components (GeekGadgets, ixemul.library etc.). You can get further information in the readme.
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01.Dec.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Minimig-box: Second, improved version
For some months Loriano 'TheDaddy' Pagni sells a box for the Amiga-clone Minimig. There is now a second, improved version of the box with some changes. For detailed information please have a look under the title link.
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30.Nov.2008
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Project: Miggy - an Amiga-Emulator in Java
"Miggy" is supposed to become a Java-based Amiga-emulator. The first aim is to emulate an Amiga 500. Currently there is only a still not optimized CPU-emulation which according to the author reaches on a 2,4 Ghz-CPU the speed of a 68000-processor with 64 MHz.
Der Autor führt in seinem Blog ein Tagebuch über die Arbeiten an Miggy.
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30.Nov.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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OnyxSoft: Annotate 2.6.2 and BackUp 1.61
The OnyxSoft team has published updates for two of their programs called Annotate 2.6.2 and BackUp 1.61. The update of BackUp is based on requests and bug reports of users. So please do not hesitate to contact the developers if you find bugs or have suggestions.
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[News message: 30. Nov. 2008, 09:19] [Comments: 0]
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29.Nov.2008
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Video Poker Solitarus and Marble Solitarus ported
Two games published by DanLabGames were ported for MorphOS: The mind game Marble Solitarus as well as the card game Video Poker Solitarus. MorphOS 1.x as well as the 3D- and SDL-libraries are required.
Dowmload:
marblesolitarus.lha (806 KB)
videopokersolitarus.lha (1,3 MB)
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[News message: 29. Nov. 2008, 19:34] [Comments: 0]
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29.Nov.2008
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Beta testers for Samba 3.2.0 wanted
Michael 'micken' Grunditz is working on a port of Samba 3.2.0 for MorphOS and is looking for Pegasos owners making beta tests.
With Samba the data exchange and printing over the network is possible. Currently you can search directories from Mac OS X or Linux but you cannot from Windows. If you are interested then please contact the author over MorphZone.
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[News message: 29. Nov. 2008, 11:57] [Comments: 0]
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29.Nov.2008
HelmutH (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 2.17 (Update)
Jörg Strohmayer has published a new version of his port of the Origyn Web Browser. The changes in detail:
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(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Nov. 2008, 11:22] [Comments: 0]
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29.Nov.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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The Crypt: HTML-conversion of the first issues
With the return of Ray Hawkins (Dungeon Master) who was the first editor of the Crypt Amiga Disk Magazine now the conversion of the first 15 issues of the disk magazine to the HTML-format was started.
Issue 1 of the Crypt Diskmag
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[News message: 29. Nov. 2008, 10:23] [Comments: 0]
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27.Nov.2008
Psyria (ANF)
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Music-CD: Symphonic Shades delivered on 11. December
On 23. August 2008 in Cologne the concert of the WDR-symphonic orchestra with music of Chris Hülsbeck took place. Arrangements of songs like Apidya, Giana Sisters, Turrican, Jim Power or R-Type were played.
From now on the CD of the Symphonic-Shades-conzert can be oredered in advance and it will be delivered from the 11. december on. At first there will be 1000 CDs of the album and will be only available in the online-shop.
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[News message: 27. Nov. 2008, 21:26] [Comments: 0]
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27.Nov.2008
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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AROS für AmigaOS: AfA 4.3
Bernd Rösch's "AROS for AmigaOS" (AfA) is a port of single AROS-components to AmigaOS 3. Thus new functionality of AROS is supposed to make available under AmigaOS as well. Version 4.3 includes some bug fixes as well as a reworked documentation and new features.
Direct download:
Binaries: AfA_OS_V4.3.lha (1,6 MB)
Source code: afa4.3_src.zip (652 KB)
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