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Archive 03/2006

`14.Mar.2006` 4players.de (ANF)	DVD: Digital Memories - Memories of the C64-scene With Digital Memories Vol. 1 now a DVD is available, which strolls along on the tracks of succesfull scene-DVDs like Mindcandy. 15 of the best Demos from the C64-era are included in the first issue. Included are for example Fairlights Boogie Factor or the legendary Deus Ex Machina by Crest, Dutch Breeze by Blackmail and the old classic Electric Cafe by Ash & Dave. There is bonus material like hundreds of scene grafics, 14 music tracks by legends like Chris Hülsbeck, Rob Hubbard or Fred Gray, as well as games like turrican 3, Crus, Metal Warrior 4 and It's Magic on the disc. The DVD will be tested thoroughly on 4players.de shortly. (cg) [News message: 14. Mar. 2006, 21:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Mar.2006` Verein zum Erhalt klassischer Computer e.V. (ANF)	Event: Classic-Computing 2006 On September 30th and October 01st 2006 the Classic-Cpmputing 2006 takes place, this time in Nordhorn, Lower Saxony. On about 1.100 square meters users, clubs, vendors and collectors of history computers from all over Germany, Benelux and many other Countries will meet. Beside the possibility to play with one of the many arranged computers and consoles, you may inform yourself about repair and maintenance of your "oldtimer" through members of the "Verein zur Enthaltung klassischer Computer" an other Collectors and trader. You may also trade or buy whole computers, games or accessories from traders or private sellers. A large number of collectors, vendors, and the "retro-press" have already announced theirs participation. Of course, not only members but also all friends of classic computers are invited. A special emphasis is put on the still very actibe Amiga sceme this year, so many vendors and users may be expected. But also friends of other computers will sure not be dissapointed. Traditionally, like every year many MSX-computers, Commodore 8 bit computers, Ataris, old Apple-computers and historic professional computers from the time before windows will be there to be seen and experienced. Admission for visitors is 2 EUR. But there are also very attractive fees for traders, collectors and second-hand dealers, to make this a real mega-event- Further information can be found at the page of the association for conversation of classic computers e.V., www.classic-computing.de, or directly on www.amiga-event.de, or via mail from the head of the association: Rüdiger Schuldes, Kappelbergstraße 14, 71332 Waiblingen. (cg) (Translation: iw) [News message: 14. Mar. 2006, 18:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Mar.2006` Rupert Hausberger (ANF)	MorphOS: Package Manager MorphUp 1.0 (Bounty Release) After six months of development Rupert Hausberger today released version 1.0 of his package manager MorphUp. This Version meets the terms of the "Bounty" posted on morphzone.org. The author thanks all donators and those who support the project in other ways. Introduction MorphUp is the result of the ezPM bounty, released on morphzone.org. So far, when installing a new application, AmigaOS/MorphOS users often had to visit various internet pages and download, unpack and install several archives manually. The packet manager MorphUp is to take over this time consuming and error-prone process from the user. MorphUP consists of two parts: the "Generator" used by developers to create so-called "packages", archives which contain the actual software. Those packages can be hosted on any HTTP server. The MorphUp client then assumes the download and installation of those packages on the computer of the user. Features of MorphUp Package system: Packages can be grouped by type. Theoreticaly unlimited packages per group and unlimited dirs/files per package. Can handle file size up to (the DOS limitation of) 2 GB. Extraction of files without the need of unpacking the whole package. Real directory structures in packages. 3 different package types: Full packages, to transfer a huge amount of files at once. Single packages, to safe bandwitch if only a few files need to transfered. Link packages, to refer to other archives. Full packages automaticly split into parts if they grow too larger while generation. Dynamic block compression based on zlib. Fully asyncron, any function can be aborted at any time. The task-priority can be set for each asyncron function. Differentiation between system and application files. Fast installation, uninstallation, extraction and convertion routines. Tag-based saving to easy add things later. Graphic User Interface: Multithreaded MUI applications, can handle multiple indexes at same time. Many editing functions like: add, remove, makedir, add recursive... Cut&Paste edit mode, even over different packages. Dynamic context menus everywhere, even in list-titels. Full locale support. Disabling of unwanted indexes, package classes and packages. Setable colors, styles and dateformat in all listtrees and lists. Controlable through application menus, contextmenus, keyboard. Detailed information groups for packages and files. Toolbar with replaceable icons. Other: Configurable datatype system with MIME-support. Configurable data classes system, to avoid hardcoded paths. Configurable package classes system, to avoid hardcoded paths. Uses XAD system to support many types of archives in link packages. Packages can have a picture, any size and type is supported. Multilevel log system with possibility to log to disk. Small memory usage. (cg) (Translation: iw) [News message: 14. Mar. 2006, 18:47] [Comments: 1 - 15. Mar. 2006, 03:09] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Mar.2006` Michael Böhmer (ANF)	New Edition of the SUBWAY USB-Controllers Due to the high demand E3B is happy to anounce a new editon of the reknown and popular USB controller SUBWAY for the Amiga Clockport. Production could commence before the research period of Michael Böhmer and is already revved. The new edition is supported actively by the former competitor on the USB market. Massimo Mancini - designer of the UltraBUS, unfortunately produced only as a prototype - has ceded its store to E3B and therefore enables a smooth reissue of the SUBWAY, which otherwise almost had failed due to the sales policy of the semiconductor industry and their germand distributors respectively. As before, Chris Hodges popular USB-Stack Poseidon will be included in the 2.x version. The convenient upgrade-offer, E3B will take over part of the liscencing costs, also applies to the reisued SUBWAY modules and so far is available only for E3B products in the section of USB controllers for the Amiga. E3B will announce the beginning of shipment for the SUBWAY as usual on the popular news pages. It is already a fact, tha SUBWAY will be available at al major Amiga vendors worldwide. As a novelty, this time distribution for chosen countries will be handled through individual computers to enable al vendors to purchase at low cost (thus enabling low consumer prices). (nba) (Translation: iw) [News message: 14. Mar. 2006, 12:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Mar.2006` ANN (Webseite)	MorphOS: Gallerius 2.0 Pawel 'Stekos' Stefanski's Gallerius helps you to create HTML thumbnail galleries. Changes in version 2.0: antialiasing scaling modes file selector creating additional subpages or files color selector changes bugs removed Download: gallerius.lha (125 KB) (snx) (Translation: iw) [News message: 14. Mar. 2006, 09:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Mar.2006` Sven Ottemann (ANF)	filing programme: Lha 2.12 for AmigaOS 2/3/4 and WarpOS Sven Ottemann has published a new version of Amiga-Lha. Two faults have been cleared in Lha 2.12, among other things softlinks can no longer be mitstaken for directories. (cg) (Translation: iw) [News message: 14. Mar. 2006, 01:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Mar.2006` Thore Böckelmann (ANF)	System Monitor: Scout 3.5 published, including OS4 version (update) The new version of the system monitor Scout was released today. Besides versions for AmigaOS 3 and MorphOS, a port for AmigaOS 4 is also available now, in addition, some errors were corrected. Update: (13.03.2006, 16:40, cg) Since an error had creeped in when compiling the MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 archives, revised versions have been released in the meantime. The new archives now contain system-specific versions of the accompanying libraries and MUI classes. (cg) (Translation: cad) [News message: 12. Mar. 2006, 16:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Mar.2006` ANN (Web page)	SystemPatch 2.96 SystemPatch by Sante Nocciolino modifies diverse operating system routines, in order to increase performance on computers with newer 68K processors. The most is brought out in 68060 systems, but it is applicable on all Amigas from a 68020 upwards. Improvements in version 2.96: Added LoadSeg() and NewLoadSeg() patches Updated quicklayers.library with three new patches: BeginUpdate(), EndUpdate(), InstallClipRegion() C-code now compiled with vbcc V0.8i by Volker Barthelmann Now it reports correct loading of FAllocRasterExcludeList Download: SystemPatch296.lha (82 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad) [News message: 12. Mar. 2006, 15:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Mar.2006` amigafuture.de (Webseite)	AmigaOS 4: Update of Instant Messenger Epistula There is a new version of the Instant Messenger Epistula under the title link. Because Epistula runs fine now this is the last update for the demo version. All further improvements of the main program (except the plugins) will be available only for registered users. Changes since the last version: MSN plugin has now been updated to MSN Protocol 11 Group names are now UTF-Decoded/Encoded in the MSN plugin before being sent to Epistula Fixed the secure authentication which stopped quite a few people logging into MSN. Those unable to login before, but could with GAIM or the official client should find this allows them to login with Epistula now MSN plugin now respects your initial presence as specified in the plugin settings Plugin integration with Epistula has had a massive re-write Epistula will now check for the minimum required MUI custom classes before launching General messages window fixed to display the correct message when selected from the list Slight cosmetic changes Various memory leaks/bugs fixed (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. Mar. 2006, 18:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Mar.2006` Norman Walter (ANF)	New lesson of the Amiga C-course for beginners The Amiga C-course for beginners has got a new lesson. This is about fractals. Besides this to the lesson "rekursive Funktionen" further examples have been added with the topic "Lotto" and "Fibonacci-Zahlen". (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. Mar. 2006, 16:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Mar.2006` morphzone.org (Webseite)	MorphOS: Arcade Game Construction Kit (Preview) The SDL-based "Arcade Game Construction Kit" (AGCK) is supposed to make the users possible to create own shoot games similar to the good old "Shoot'em Up Construction Kit". There is a first, with AGCK created game: A new version of "1944". (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. Mar. 2006, 01:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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