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27.Jul.2007
AROS-Exec (Forum)


Windows: AFS Util 0.0
AFS Util 0.0 is a Windows program with a graphical user-interface for reading AROS formated OFS/FFS-disks and harddrives.

Version 0.0 is supposed to demonstrate the basic use. It is required a PC with at least Windows 2000 and administrator level. If you have questions, remarks or problems then please use forum of AROS-Exec.
more ... (snx) (Translation: dr)

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27.Jul.2007
Amigaweb.net (Webseite)


OnyxSoft: Updates of six programs
The developer team OnyxSoft has published updates of six of his programs. They mainly contain bug fixes. Only Annotate has got some new functions.

Please note that the OnyxSoft homepage will be updated only in a few days. Therefore it seems that the files there would be old versions. more ... (snx) (Translation: dr)

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27.Jul.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


IRC-Klient: WookieChat 2.7 beta 5
James "jahc" Carroll has published a new beta version of his MUI-based IRC client Wookiechat. The last changes are available in the Changelog. Wookiechat is available for all Amiga systems. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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26.Jul.2007



File System: SFS 1.273
The latest Version of the alternative file system SFS includes the following changes:
  • 1.273: Fixed a bug in ACTION_WRITE writing to large files
  • 1.273: Added workarounds for bugs in MorphOS, the AmigaOS 3.x/m68k version should work on it again
  • 1.272: Speed up detection of unreadable CD/DVD
  • 1.271: Fixed de_Control check

SFS 1.273 is available for AmigaOS 3/4. (cg) (Translation: tz)

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26.Jul.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


GUI System: Feelin 20070725
Olivier Laviale provides a new version of his open source project "Feelin". Feelin is an object oriented framework for AmigaOS. (cg) (Translation: tz)

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26.Jul.2007
amigafuture.de (website)


AmigaOS 4: CPUTemp.docky 52.14
Jörg Strohmayer's CPUTemp.docky shows the cpu's present temperature and the cpu load within the AmigaOS 4 dock. Changes in version 52.14:
  • If IGNORETASKS isn't used it no longer uses an own method for calculating the CPU usage, requires the July 2007 update of AmigaOS4
  • Now prevents adding itself twice to AmiDock
  • Added UPDATESPEED tooltype
(cg) (Translation: tz)

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26.Jul.2007
Ron van Schaik (ANF)


Event: Amiga and C64 music (Maarssen, NL)
Ron van Schaik writes: On our C= Show of saturday august 18th we have as theme: Music. We invite everyone who is interested or can demonstrate music on an Amiga or a C64 computer.
more ... (snx)

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25.Jul.2007
ToT-Team (ANF)


Strategy game: Tales of Tamar homepage in new design
Press release Dear friends of the roleplay game, dear players, friends and supporter of Tales of Tamar,

640 years of history are mighty. 640 years of adventures, explorations, fights, 640 years of love, death and betrayal, 640 years of heros, villains, dragons and virgins...
more ... (snx) (Translation: dr)

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25.Jul.2007



Amiga clone: Minimig source code published
Dennis van Weeren has published the source codes and all descriptions of his FPGA-based Amiga 500 clone Minimig under the GNU Public License (GPL). Van Weeren will keep on developing Minimig but he hopes that there will be more support by the publication. E.g. for debugging of the sprite engine or for the implementation of harddrive or ethernet support. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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25.Jul.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Amiga Future: Issues 60 and 61 online
Press release The german issues 60 and 61 of the Amiga Future are out of stock. Because of that you can read the two magazines (amongst many other issues) online at the title link.

The issue 67, which has been the first issue published in German and English, has been released recently and is available at our online shop. Just now we work hard on issue 68. (snx)

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24.Jul.2007



Amiga Inc. (Delaware) so far not holder of Amiga trade mark
According to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) the transfer of the Amiga trade marks from Amiga Inc. (Washington, AIW) to Amiga Inc. (Deleware) was refused.
more ... (snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Jul.2007



Game to the new "The Simpsons" movie for Amiga
According to the trailer of "The Simpsons Game" which is the new game to the "The Simpsons" movie Electronic Arts will publish the game for the Amiga platform, too. Further supported platforms of past days are e.g. VIC20, Jaguar or Dreamcast.

If Electronic Arts will publish the game for the Amiga or if it is a typical Simpsons joke that is unknown.

Direct link: Trailer E3/ 2007 (cr) (Translation: dr)

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24.Jul.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Spectrum emulator ASp 0.89b
ASp emulates Sinclair's ZX Spectrum on the Amiga. ASp is RTG-compatible and also works under AmigaOS 4. Changes in version 0.89b: more ... (cg) (Translation: dr)

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24.Jul.2007
Günther Friedrich (E-Mail)


Hardware construction: Two versions of a Efika laptop
Günther Friedrich has changed his Efika from a motherboard to a laptop: In a first attempt an aluminium suitcase was used as case then Friedrich tried a complete self construction inspired by Volker Mohr's Portable Pegasos. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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24.Jul.2007



Aminet-Uploads until 23.07.2007
These are the latest uploads at Aminet which have been added since our last message: more ... (cg) (Translation: dr)

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24.Jul.2007



os4depot.net: Uploads until 23.07.2007
These are the latest uploads at os4depot.net which have been added since our last message: more ... (cg) (Translation: dr)

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24.Jul.2007



AROS-Archives: Uploads until 23.07.2007
These are the latest uploads at AROS-archives which have been added since our last message: more ... (cg) (Translation: dr)

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24.Jul.2007
Henrik Mikael Kristensen (E-Mail)


Web-Browser: AWeb 3.5.09 beta for AmigaOS 3/4
The latest beta version of the Reaction based browser AWeb now uses the codesets.library to display characters which do not belong to the ASCII. Besides this the Javascript support was improved. You can find a detailed list of changes in the readme.

AmigaOS 3: aweb3.5.09_68k_20070721.lha (3,4 MB) (Readme)
AmigaOS 4: aweb3.5.09_os4_20070721.lha (6,9 MB) (Readme) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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23.Jul.2007
Dennis "Psyria"" Lohr (ANF)


Musik : Psyria at 24.07.07 live by pop-radio.de
On Tuesday, the 24.07.07 is Dennis "Psyria" Lohr as guest live on stage by pop-radio.de. From 8 o'clock will Psyria answering questions and will present his upcoming CD for 2h. The Stream is recievable as audio and as Video on the channel from Pop-One (German only). (cg) (Translation: aj)

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23.Jul.2007
Andry Joos / Echtzeit - Digitale Kultur (ANF)


Buenzli 16 - The Demoscene Festival
Presserelease: Three days of animationen, realtime grapic, music and fun on the BUENZLI 16. The swiss multiplatform demoparty will by also this year in Winterthur - the first time organized by Echtzeit - Digitale Kultur. more ... (cg) (Translation: aj)

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23.Jul.2007



Amiga celebrates 22. birthsday
Today celebrates the Amiga after a several ups and downs,his 22th birthsday. The world premiere of the first Amiga 1000 with stars like Andy warhol and Deppie Harry starts in New York on the 23. Juli 1985. The multimedia-wonder from Commodore would be with his phenomenal Graphic- and Soundcapability and a big pool of software a milestone in the history of computer. Congratulation, Amiga! (nba) (Translation: aj)

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23.Jul.2007
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaScene.nl: new netherlands Amiga-Portal
With AmigaScene.nl was a new Portal online, which the closed pages of amiga.nl as "the" Forum for the netherlands Amiga-user follows.

The new webside is thematically for current and past Amiga-user and beside also for the Demoszene and AmigaOne-user. (snx) (Translation: aj)

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22.Jul.2007
amigafuture.de (Web page)


Push4Dock: New theme "Blue4" (update)
"Blue4" (screenshot) is a skin for Martin Merz's AmiDock extension Push4Dock.

Direct download: p4d_blue4.lha (114 KB)

Update: (13:30, 22.07.07, snx)
Also, please consider the comment by Martin 'Mason' Merz in this regard. (cg) (Translation: cad)

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22.Jul.2007
MorphZone (Forum)


MorphOS: First beta of MomosIRC
With MomosIRC, Marian 'MaaG^dA' Guc has released a new IRC client for MorphOS (screenshot). So far, however, further information is only available in Polish.

Download: MomosIRC_MOS.lha (105 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad)

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20.Jul.2007
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Instant Messenger Epistula 52.12
The Instant Messenger Epistula is available in version 52.12. Please note that this version requires the last update of AmigaOS 4.

Additionally a general keyfile was made available so the program can now be used without a limitation of ten minutes. For this the author asks for a little donation.
more ... (snx) (Translation: dr)

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20.Jul.2007
Codex Alpe Adria (ANF)


Codex Alpe Adria: First pictures online
Under the title link first pictures of the Codex Alpe Adria were published which took place from 6. - 8.  of July in Italian Udine. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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18.Jul.2007



AmigaOS 4.0 July 2007 Update Available
Press release:
Leuven, Belgium - 18. July, 2007

Hyperion Entertainment VOF is pleased to announce the immediate availability for download for registered customers of another service update of Amiga OS 4.0 which addresses some outstanding issues and introduces substantial new functionality. more ... (cg) (Translation: cg)

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18.Jul.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


MorphOS: bzip2 1.0.4 and GoatNinja 1.1
Matthias "DJBase" Münch has published ports of the file-compressor bzip2 1.0.4 as well as of the music module convertes GoatNinja 1.1. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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18.Jul.2007



HSMathLibs 46.00 beta 1 for MC68881/82
For registered users of the mathematics library HSMathLibs written by Matthias Henze there is a new beta version for Amigas with FPU (MC68881/82). (cg) (Translation: dr)

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18.Jul.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Amiga Future: web site updated, new sections added
Press release: The Amiga Future homepage has got a comprehensive update the last few days: more ... (cg) (Translation: cg)

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17.Jul.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: CPUTemp.docky 52.13
CPUTemp.docky written by Jörg Strohmayer shows the current CPU-temperature and capacity in the AmigaOS 4-dock. The pictogram tooltype "SHOWDATE" is new in version 52.13. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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17.Jul.2007
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Filesharing: Update of AmiGift 2.0-prerelease-version
Amigift is a P2P-filesharing system which is based on giFT (Gnutella, FastTrack, OpenFT) and which have a MUI-based graphical user-interface called "GiftMUI".

Under the title link an update for the prerelease-version of AmiGift 2.0 was published. The changes are listed in the changelog. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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17.Jul.2007
Amiga Future (Webseite)


MorphOS: TD MPlayer GUI 0.9
TD MPlayer GUI is a graphical user-interface for the video player MPlayer.

Changes in version 0.9:
  • Added localization support and locales for Polish and Deutsch
  • Added deinterlace combo
  • Added DVD chapter support
  • Changed tooltype VCD_DEVICE into CD_DEVICE
  • New tooltype MAXCHAPTER
  • Some other improvements and changes
  • Bugfixes
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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17.Jul.2007
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)


MorphOS: GIF87a support for Reggae
Reggae which is a multimedia library for MorphOS written by Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski now supports all features of the GIF87a standard, inclusive so called "Truecolor GIFs", tiled pictures, multiple colours and progressive decoding. GIF89a pictures are also supported but some features of this standard like transparency or animation are still not implemented.

Direct download:

gif.decoder-51.4.lha (12 KB)
gif.demuxer-51.3.lha (10 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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16.Jul.2007
a1k.org (Webseite)


Commdore-Emulator: VICE 1.21 for WarpOS/PowerUp
Linked to the title is the actual version 1.21 of the Commodore-Emulators VICE for WarpOS and PowerUp available. This port for both AmigaOS 3-extensions is only in a "experimental" status. (cg) (Translation: aj)

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16.Jul.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: CD-/DVD-burnprogram AmiDVD 1.28
AmiDVD from Jörg Strohmayer is a very simplfied CD-/DVD-Burnprogram, which create first a ISO9660 image-file and write this later on a CD etc. DVD. AmiDVD supports the AmigaOS-typical protection bits and filecomments and can create also bootlable disks. "Multi-Session" or Images bigger then 4 GB are not possible. (cg) (Translation: aj)

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16.Jul.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


APC&TCP: Re-release of Ultra Violent Worlds
Press releaseAfter a long time we have finally made it. Ultra Violent Worlds is available at the online shop of APC&TCP now.
more ... (snx)

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15.Jul.2007



Emulator: PSPUAE 0.63 BE
PSPUAE is a conversion of the well-known Amiga emulator E-UAE for Sony's portable game console, PSP. Changes in version 0.63 BE: more ... (cg) (Translation: cad)

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15.Jul.2007



AmigaOS 4: peeVoBill 1.0
With peeVoBill, files of a video DVD can be accessed, to copy these to other data media.

Download: peevobill.lha (115 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad)

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15.Jul.2007
Roland Heyder (ANF)


RandomWBPatt: Error correction
Roland 'RhoSigma' Heyder points out that in the current version 5.410 of his program RandomWBPatt, a runtime error ("Unexpected Runtime Error") can come by.

This error can be corrected by deleting the #?.done file(s) in the SYS:Prefs/Presets directory.
more ... (snx) (Translation: cad)

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14.Jul.2007
Andre O. / Tristar (ANF)


Demo scene: Tristar to celebrate 20th anniversary
Tristar exists for 20 years now and will celebrate this on September 8th, 2007 in Wuppertal (Germany) with a party held in a nice brewery (to be exactly, in its festival room). Founders, admins and artists from the past 20 years will appear there. You may participate, too, if you want to.
more ... (snx) (Translation: wk)

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13.Jul.2007
Mac Life


Movie Tron celebrates 25th anniversary
In 1982 Disney`s Tron started in the cinemas. The movie is about a programmer (played by Jeff Bridges) who gets "digitized" and finds himself inside a computer where he is forced to play the gladiatorial games he wrote. Tron was something of a milestone for computer-generated imagery. more ... (nba) (Translation: dr)

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13.Jul.2007
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)


MorphOS: MapMasterDX 0.9
With Kelly Samel`s MapMasterDX for MorphOS you can create big landscapes consisting of single tile for 2D-games (screenshot).
more ... (snx) (Translation: dr)

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13.Jul.2007
#amiganews.de IRC-Kanal


MorphOS: PrimatePlunge 1.1a
Herbert 'HAK' Klackl has published a new version of Primate Plunge (screenshot). Primate Plunge is a game similar to Tetris. more ... (cr) (Translation: dr)

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13.Jul.2007
Amigaweb.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Blaster Bastards 0.85
After the MorphOS-version Stian Strøm has published a first beta version of the game "Blaster Bastards" with the help of 'SpotUp' for AmigaOS 4. The multi players game in Boulderdash style is available in version 0.85. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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13.Jul.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: DiskLED.docky 52.3
DiskLED.docky written by Jörg Strohmayer displays the activity of up to 12 drives and is supposed to be a replacement for the real HD-led (e.g. if there are more controlers than LEDs or if the LEDs are hidden). Changes since version 52.1: more ... (cg) (Translation: dr)

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13.Jul.2007



MorphOS: Adventure-Interpreter ScummVM 0.10.0
Fabien Coeurjoly has published the latest version of the Adventure Interpreter ScummVM for MorphOS. With the update several additional games are supported (Gobliins 2 and 3, Simon the Sorcerer's Puzzle Pack, Ween: The Prophecy, Bargon Attack, Nippon Safes Inc. etc.). A detailed list of all changes you can get here. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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13.Jul.2007
MorphZone (Forum)


MorphOS: New cars for Virtual Grand Prix 2
Under the title link version 1.0 of VGPHD 2007 F1 Carset has been published which provides further cars with lower, middle or higher resolutution for the racing simulation Virtual Grandprix 2. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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13.Jul.2007
MorphZone (Webseite)


SceneCON: Video of Efika and MorphOS presentation (update)
During the demo scene meeting SceneCON 2007 the Efika-board under Linux and MorphOS 2.0 was presented.

The MorphOS presentation was recorded as video (from minute 43:50) but only the real-time tranparency supported by graphic boards is shown.
more ... (snx) (Translation: dr)

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12.Jul.2007
amigaworld.net (Website)


Amiga 1200: New Edition of IDEFix-Express
Individual Computers has reissued the famous ide adapter IDE-Fix Express. The adapter is a buffered ide interface for connecting up to four ide devices to the Amiga 1200 and provides a data transfer speed up to five times faster than the original. Furthermore it offers the possibility for upgrading an optional, clock port compatible expansion slot. IDEFix-Express is shipped with a registered full version of the ide driver IDEFix.

Vesalia has the adapter already in stock, but will be available as of next Monday because of the company holidays. amigakit.com can already offer the IDEFix-Express. (cg) (Translation: tz)

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10.Jul.2007



Aminet-Uploads until 09.07.2007
These are the latest Aminet uploads which have been added since our last message: more ... (cg) (Translation: dr)

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10.Jul.2007



os4depot.net: Uploads until 09.07.2007
These are the latest uploads at os4depot.net which have been added since our last message: more ... (cg) (Translation: dr)

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10.Jul.2007



AROS-Archives: Uploads until 09.07.2007
These are the latest uploads at AROS-archives which have been added since our last message: more ... (cg) (Translation: dr)

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10.Jul.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


MorphOS: Status update for roleplay game Eve
Under the title link Kelly Samel gives some information about the status of his latest project "Eve". Additionally there are new screenshots. A first playable basic version will be published next week. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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09.Jul.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


AmiKit: Wallpaper-contest
The look of the next version of AmiKit, a AmigaOS distribution for WinUAE-user, will be refreshed, therefore there announce a wallpaper contest where everyone is welcome to contribute. The prizes are waiting for three winners and their wallpapers become the part of the next full AmiKit 1.4.0 release. You can send multiple wallpapers to increase your chances to win! All the contributions will be available in the gallery at AmiKit website. The contest deadline is August 31st after which a poll takes place to nominate the winning wallpapers.

The prices for the winner are a full vision of ImageFX 4.5 and ArtEffect 4.0 (incl. Plugins-CD) and beside $100 paid via paypal. (cg) (Translation: aj)

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09.Jul.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Amiga Future: Update of the Download-Database
The Download-Database on the Amiga Future website has been updated:
  • New CD-Fullversion Uropa 2
  • Some Total Amiga issues
  • WinUAE mirror
  • Some MP3 files
  • Demoversion of Ultra Violent Worlds
(snx)

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09.Jul.2007
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)


MorphOS: OpenTTD 0.5.3 Release Candidate 2
OpenTTD is a Open-Source-clon of the known PC-strategie-game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe" from the 90s with several add ons - beside a network modus, individal Gfx-sets and localizied to 24 languages. Required are the files of the original version.

The release Candidate 2 fixed a major item which let's crashed the last version. (snx) (Translation: aj)

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09.Jul.2007
pegasosforum.de (ANF)


MorphOS: BurnIT 3.0 defered (Update)
Manyfestly is the CD- and DVD-Brunprogramm BurnIt 3.0, where we reported about the pretended released, is not available.

In acc. which customers how order this product, payed Vesalia the transfered money back, because the release date is not specificated. Up to now acc. withunconfirmed details are differences between the developer and the publisher of BurnIt the reason.

Update: (09.07.2007, 15:00, cg)

Michael Garlich from the Publisher Titan notify, that there are no differences bewteen Titan and the BurnIt-Maindeveloper Michael Siegel. Mr. Siegel stoppt the release of BurnIT, because the momentary status of the software is not stabil. But the release is only stoppt for a unkonwn time. (cg) (Translation: aj)

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09.Jul.2007



Codex Alpe Adria: News from SAM440 and FireFox
Amigworld.net-reader "Varthall" reports from the italian Codex Alpe Adria, which was last weekend in Udine, the last news about the ACubes PPC-Motherboard Sam440. more ... (cg) (Translation: aj)

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07.Jul.2007
a1k.org/forum/ (website)


Radio play and animated cartoon of Monkey Island and Zak McKracken
Marius "Majus" Fietzek, apparently a big fan of the legendary point'n click adventures Monkey Island and Zak McKracken, tells the story of both titles in short self produced radio plays, for Monkey Island exists additionally an animated cartoon using the Flash movie format. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jul.2007
amigafuture.de (website)


AmigaOS 4: DiskLED.docky 52.1
DiskLED.docky by Jörg Strohmayer displays the activity of up to 12 drives in a graphical way and is meant as a replacement for a real HDD LED, e.g. when there are more controllers then LEDs or when the LEDs can hardly be seen because of the case position. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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06.Jul.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


PNG-Pictograms: GlowRevolution 3
The third issue of the collection of pictograms called "GlowRevolution" contains over 250 dual-PNG-icons in Glowicons-style (screenshot).

The pictograms can be used under AmigaOS 3 (AFA is required), AmigaOS 4 (requires the PNG-modul), MorphOS and AROS.

Direct download: GlowRevolution³.LHA (3,4 MB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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06.Jul.2007



Event: Codex Alpe Adria update (Update)
Press release Codex Alpe Adria 2007, the friendly alternative computing and digital culture event organized by Cloanto, will take place this week-end in Udine, Italy.

Unlike previous years, the main event on Saturday is to take place on a large tour coach, which will stop at various places of historical interest, while seminars take place on board the bus.
more ... (snx)

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06.Jul.2007
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Porting Guide for Dummies 1.6.4 (English)
Spot's Porting Guide for Dummies is an English porting guide for multi platform programs for AmigaOS 4 and is now available in version 1.6.4.

In this version new chapters have been added to the topics "Compiling SDL/GL apps" and "Converting a Windows makefile into an AmigaOS makefile". (snx) (Translation: dr)

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05.Jul.2007
MorphZone (Website)


MorphOS: Picture Viewer ShowGirls 0.95
ShowGirls is a picture viewer from Michal 'kiero' Wozniak which offers some image editing functions and combines features of "MiniShowPicture", "ShowPPC" and similar programs (Screenshots).
more ... (snx) (Translation: tz)

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05.Jul.2007
Kris (ANF)


AmigaSYS: Announcement of Version 3 Plus / New Website
Kris writes: AmigaSYS is a preinstalled workbench for the Amiga emulator WinUAE with a lot of features and extensions. After the successful installation AmigaSYS offers a workbench providing everything for an initial start - similar to the projects like AIAB (Amiga In A Box) or AmiKit.
more ... (snx) (Translation: tz)

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05.Jul.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Amiga Future: Ausgabe 67 (German/English) published
Press release: Issue 67 of the Amiga Future (July/August 2007) is out now. This means that all subscriptions, preorders and consignments to dealers have been shipped today.
more ... (snx)

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04.Jul.2007
amigafuture.de (website)


WinUAE: AmiKit 1.3.6
For AmiKit, a complete distribution for WinUAE users, an update to version 1.3.6 is available. It is to obtain by the integrated "live update" function or by manual installation.

The update contains one hundered more exclusive 24 bit pictograms by Ken "klesterjr" Lester, the other changes are listed at the Changelog. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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04.Jul.2007
Thomas Krämer (ANF)


Kick Off 2: German Championchips 2007 in Cologne
Thomas Kraemer writes: The Kick Off 2 DM 2007 is ready! The competition will be from September the 22nd to 23rd at the famous Cologne youth hostel from the world championchips 2005.ETh event will be rather a German-Open, we hope to welcome some foreign guests. more ... (cg)

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02.Jul.2007



Aminet-Uploads until 01.07.2007
Aminet-Uploads since our last report: more ... (cg) (Translation: aj)

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02.Jul.2007



os4depot.net: Uploads until 01.07.2007
Uploads on os4depot.net since our last report: more ... (cg) (Translation: aj)

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02.Jul.2007



AROS-Archives: Uploads until 01.07.2007
Uploads on AROS-Archives since our last report: more ... (cg) (Translation: aj)

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02.Jul.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Filesharing: AmiGift 2.0 Prerelease
Amigift is a P2P-Filesharingsystem which based on the from the Unix-world ported giFT-Daemon (Gnutella, FastTrack, OpenFT) and will be used over a MUI-based graphical user interface named "GiftMUI" (Screenshot). more ... (cg) (Translation: aj)

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02.Jul.2007



WHDLoad: New Package until 02.07.2007
With WHDLoad is it possible to install games and scene-demos, which are only created to work with floppy disks, on a harddisk. Also several incompatibilities with newer Amiga-models will by fixed.

Following Installer are added or updated since our last report: more ... (cg) (Translation: aj)

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02.Jul.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Codex Alpe Adria: Sam440, Minimig and C-One to win
In Udine (Italie) starts "Codex Alpe Adria" next weekend. On the Demo-Competitions is this year several Hardware to win:
  • A working Prototyp of the Minimig, donated by Dennis van Weeren
  • A Sam440ep-System, donated by ACube Systems srl
  • a C-One-Developer-System

More information about this event are linked to the title. (cg) (Translation: aj)

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02.Jul.2007
David Brunet (ANF)


New Article on the Obligement-Webseite (french)
The Webside of the french AmigaOS- and MorphOS-Magazin Obligement updated by following article: more ... (snx) (Translation: aj)

[News message: 02. Jul. 2007, 14:22] [Comments: 0]
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01.Jul.2007



AmigaOS 4: First screenshots of a Blender port
Apparently, Thomas Frieden is working on a port of the 3D package Blender to AmigaOS 4, as proved by two of the screenshots published on amigans.net (1, 2).

Hans-Jörg "Rogue" Frieden comments that although the port is already very stable and complete except for the GameBlender module, some things simply do not work as they should yet. Therefore, some time will go by until the release. (cg) (Translation: cad)

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01.Jul.2007



IRC Client: WookieChat 2.7 Beta 4
James "jahc" Carroll is making available a new beta version of his MUI-based IRC client Wookiechat. The latest changes can be gathered from the changelog. Wookiechat is available for all Amiga systems. (cg) (Translation: cad)

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30.Jun.2007
Timo Kloss (ANF)


AmigaOS 4: Phonolith MIDI-Sampler 0.7
Phonolith is a software instrument for AmigaOS 4 to play sampled wave forms. It can be used with Horny and other CAMD based sequencers or simply with a connected MIDI keyboard. New in version 0.7: more ... (cg) (Translation: wk)

[News message: 30. Jun. 2007, 14:55] [Comments: 0]
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30.Jun.2007
antibike (ANF)


Software licence: GPLv3 released
Sixteen years after version 2 did the Free Software Foundation release the final version of the software licence GPLv3 yesterday representing an adaption to the changes that took place since then (e.g. DRM and software patents).

Further information can be found for example on heise open. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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29.Jun.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


RSS reader: miniRSS-Reader 0.1
miniRSS-Reader is a simple RSS reader and works as a commodity. The hbasic2.library is required.

Link: Download page (cg) (Translation: dr)

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29.Jun.2007
antibike (ANF)


Bittorrent-Client: Beehive available for AmigaOS
The Bittorrent-client Beehive written by Hannu Komsa is now available for AmigaOS. Exactly Beehive is a MUI interface for the client Enhanced CTorrent written by Dennis Holmes. (snx) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 29. Jun. 2007, 13:28] [Comments: 0]
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29.Jun.2007
Phobos (ANF)


Faces of Mars: Further handy pictures by Eric W. Schwartz
For Phobos which is a "portal for alternative mobile content" further handy pictures and cartoons were licensed by Eric W. Schwartz. The first seven ones are available under the title link.

Further contents are supposed to follow. The website should be written in this way that Amigas can access it without problems. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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29.Jun.2007



AROS: New WinAros developer version
After the publishing of the Light-Version of WinAros meanwhile there is a current version for developer which additionally contains "Murks!"-IDE as well as all files which are required under AROS.

Murks! uses the same project file format like AmiDevCpp and therefore can load and save those projects. The archive contains some examples as well as a short documentation in AmigaGuide format.

Download: WinArosDeveloper062007.exe (35 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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28.Jun.2007
(ANF)


AmigaOS 4: Digital Universe 1.5 (Demo)
Bill Eaves provides a demo version of the astronomy program Digital Universe 1.5. The software is in an early beta state, but not far in future a commercial distribution is planned. more ... (cg) (Translation: tz)

[News message: 28. Jun. 2007, 17:48] [Comments: 0]
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28.Jun.2007
amigaworld.net (Website)


AmigaOS 4: Instant Messenger Epistula 52.11 (Beta)
A new beta version of the instant messenger Epistula is available for registered users. After a nearly complete rework of the core program only the msn protocol is supported so far, file transfers are not implemented yet.

The download link for this beta version can be found under the title link in the section "Bug-Tracker". (cg) (Translation: tz)

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28.Jun.2007
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AmigaOS 4: Battle for Wesnoth 1.3.4 (developer version)
The round based strategy game "Battle for Wesnoth" is available as developer version 1.3.4 for AmigaOS 4. Please keep in mind that the latest stable version is still 1.2.4. (cg) (Translation: tz)

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26.Jun.2007
Sébastien Jeudy (ANF)


"Class meeting" of original Amiga developers
Last week a major part of the developer team which developed the original Amiga met at the wedding of Dale Luck. Carl Sassenrath has taken a photo of this reunion and introduces the persons in his blog. (cg) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 26. Jun. 2007, 14:22] [Comments: 0]
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25.Jun.2007
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)


MorphOS: basic support of GIF for Reggae
Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski's MorphOS multimedia library Reggae has been extended today with basic GIF image decoding support. It is considered beta, because some GIF features are not yet supported: animations, transparency, tiled images and interlacing.

These missing features will be implemented in the near future. Some old Reggae classes have been updated as well, all new and updated ones are available for download at the title link. (snx) (Translation: aj)

[News message: 25. Jun. 2007, 20:13] [Comments: 0]
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25.Jun.2007
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)


MorphOS: Shuffle 1.7
Shuffle is a MorphOS implementation of the famous Sliding Block Puzzle, often also known as 15 Puzzle.

The update of Shuffle is available for all registered users. The update adds new functions and fixes a few smaller issues. Registered users can download the archive from the Shuffle Download Area. more ... (snx)

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25.Jun.2007
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Porting Guide for Dummies 1.6.1
Spot's Porting Guide for Dummies, a guide to transfer multiplatform-programs to AmigaOS 4, is available in Version 1.6.1 .

A overview of all changes is linked to the header. (snx) (Translation: aj)

[News message: 25. Jun. 2007, 11:45] [Comments: 0]
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25.Jun.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Amiga Future: Issues 54 and 62 online
Press release The german issues 54 and 62 of the Amiga Future are out of stock. Because of that you can read the two magazines (amongst many other issues) online.
more ... (snx)

[News message: 25. Jun. 2007, 11:30] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jun.2007
Amigaweb.net (Web page)


Podcast Receiver: AmiPodder 1.6
AmiPodder by Robert Williams is an ARexx program that allows the reception of so-called podcasts. In addition to MUI, including the NList, NListTree and TheBar classes, RxMUI is also required.

In version 1.6, some errors were corrected and new functions were implemented. Among these are searching and, if need be, subsequently deleting downloaded podcasts based on various criteria, the availability of icons from now on, and the full localization (a German and an Italian catalog is enclosed). (snx) (Translation: cad)

[News message: 24. Jun. 2007, 20:17] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jun.2007
AmigaNN (Web page)


Tutorial: Installing an AmigaOS 4 cross compiler
At UtilityBase, Nicolas Mendoza describes the individual steps for installing the cross compiler by Joachim Birging for AmigaOS 4 on a Linux system under the title link. (snx) (Translation: cad)

[News message: 24. Jun. 2007, 09:34] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jun.2007
Roland Heyder (ANF)


MakeHTMLMap 5.000
Roland 'RhoSigma' Heyder's MakeHTMLMap supports web designers when creating online galleries and webshops.

Besides smaller improvements and bug fixes were two more payment systems (e-Gold® and MoneyBookers) for online shops implemented (Changelog). (snx) (Translation: wk)

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21.Jun.2007
Oehmmes (ANF)


Windows: Freeware clone of Amiga classic game Turrican
Hurrican is a freeware jump and shoot game created by Poke53280 that is based on the Turrican game series. Blast your way through nine action-packed levels filled with different enemies and powerups. You can download the latest version (1.0.0.1) of Hurrican under the title link. (snx) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 21. Jun. 2007, 20:50] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jun.2007
Sascha Ebel (ANF)


AmigaOS 4: Port of racing game Racer announced
According to Proost Software an AmigaOS 4-port of the famous drive simulator Racer is in development.

Up to now the Freeware program is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS. There is also a first video which shows the AmigaOS 4-version. You can find the link in the news section there. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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20.Jun.2007
Amiga.org (Webseite)


Open Video Toaster: Website reworked and extended
The website openvideotoaster.org which contains source codes of the Amiga version of the video toaster has been reworked and has some more program archives as well as a advertising video of NewTek. (snx) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 20. Jun. 2007, 21:13] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jun.2007
Kilian Servais (E-Mail)


Print magazine: Retro #4
Tomorrow issue 4 of the Retro magazine will be published. It is now available for only 6,95 Euro instead of 9,95 Euro. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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