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27.Jan.2005
ANN (website)


 MorphOS: Contents of dev.amiga.hu Available Again
"LouiSe" made the entire content of his recently closed MorphOS website dev.amiga.hu available in the form of a downloadable archive.

Download: dev_innoidea_hu.tgz (5.6 MB) (cg) (Translation: dm)

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27.Jan.2005
Simon Goodwin (ANF)


 Spam Blocker: New Recognition Methods for "SpamFryer"
"SpamFryer" searches the headers of all the e-mails in your Pop3 account and deletes the unwanted ones right at the server. For users with broadband connections, who are not quite as concerned with the download volume, there's also a version that works on the e-mails in your local e-mail directories.

Under the title link the author of SpamFryer releases new recognition methods for SPAM, methods that the user himself may enter in the SpamFryer configuration. (cg) (Translation: dm)

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27.Jan.2005
(ANF)


 heise.de: Renewed Fervor in Lobbying Battle over Software Patents
Click on the title link for heise.de's summary on the latest developments on the legal events concerning software patents. (cg) (Translation: dm)

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27.Jan.2005
Amiforce (ANF)


 Amiforce: New AMOS Game Hare Chase Prepared
On Amiforce there's a new game written by the pen of Dietmar Grämer available in the Classic Games section. Like the previous titles this one, Hare Chase, is written in AMOS. The author would be very pleased if you'd write him a few lines using the contact form. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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27.Jan.2005
Markus Bedurke (ANF)


 Amiga 500 Report in the Video Game Magazine MAN!AC
Markus Bedurke notifies us that the new issue (3/05, released this morning) of the video game magazine "MAN!AC" contains a two page report on the Amiga 500. There's a few Amiga games on the attached magazine DVD as well. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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22.Jan.2005
Vinnny (ANF)


 AmigaOS 4: DarcNES/Amiga and Handy
Matthias 'AmiDog' Roslund has ported the emulators DarcNES/Amiga and Handy to AmigaOS 4.

DarcNES emulates various game consoles, amongst them NES, SMS, SG1000 and the Coleco Vision. Handy emulates Atari's handheld device 'Lynx'.

Downloads:

DarcNES-20050122a.tar.gz (237 KB)
Handy-20050122a.tar.gz (924 KB) (cg)

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22.Jan.2005
Guido Mersmann (ANF)


 R - The GUI generator for MorphOS and AmigaOS
The program R by Guido Mersmann has been updated to version 2.10 and is available in the MorphZone. R is a realtime-generator for graphical user interfaces for almost every DOS command.

Product description by the author: Did you ever feel boring when dealing with DOS commands and their arguments? Did you ever wait for a GUI because the CLI only tool is to complicated for your Shell/CLI skills? Did you ever understand all that cryptic argument names? Did you ever wish DOS arguments would be in your native language for better understanding?

Yes? Then here comes the solution for your problems. "R" - The only weapon to defeat templates! (Something like Airwolf! :) )

Since the early 90s "R" is the one and only weapon to defeat DOS templates and now it returns! Reenforced, upgraded, reworked and ready for the future.

Tons of new features also allow professional to enhance DOS and for all other it's as easy to use as ever:

Simple call "r list" to get a high quality localized gadget user interface for the DOS command list. Set up the options and push execute. Setup predefined options for stuff you need every time and never type it again!

No longer wait for an user interface made by others. Grab a project icon, insert "R" as default tool and there it is!

It's not a hack! It's "R"!

Download: r.lha (202 KB) (snx)

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22.Jan.2005
ANN (website)


 amrss updated to version 3.6
The program amrss offers in version 3.6 now Favicons and some kind of raw cookies implementation to make sites like those of the Yahoogroups usable.

amrss shows so called RSS feeds, short news in text form offered e.g. by amiga-news.de. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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22.Jan.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)


 OnyxSoft: MPlayer GUI and program updates released
Onyxsoft released a graphical user interface for the video player MPlayer as well as updates for AllKeys, MultiRen, QuickSketch and Zapper.
  • MPlayer-GUI 1.12 by Daniel Westerberg is a graphical user interface for MPlayer (MorphOS and AmigaOS4) and requires MUI. MPlayerGUI is compiled for AmigaOS-68k but restricted to Kickstart v50.
  • AllKeys 1.0 by Daniel Westerberg makes it possible to use all mapped keyboard rawkeys including multimedia keys. The program is now available in a native AmigaOS4 version.
  • MultiRen 1.61 by Daniel Westerberg is a tool with many functions to change several file names and comments. The program requires MUI and needs at least AmigaOS 2.04.
  • QuickSketch 1.02 by Daniel Westerberg is a Post-It clone that allows you to make notes not only as text but also graphically. For AmigaOS 2.04 and higher.
  • Zapper 0.10 by Adam Waldenberg allows it under MorphOS to use the zoom gadget of windows for maximizing to the full screen size instead of the Amiga typical change to an alternative size. It is also possible to do a smart resize that just uses the maximum free area until other windows are reached.
Download:
allkeys.lha (35 KB)
mplayergui.lha (15 KB)
multiren.lha (201 KB)
quicksketch.lha (21 KB)
zapper.lha (20 KB) (snx) (Translation: wk)

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22.Jan.2005
Vinnny (ANF)


 Vaporware: mo more online registrations possible
As can be read on the Vaporware website has Silicon Circus stopped the possibility for online registration for Vaporware products from December, 25th 2004 on. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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22.Jan.2005
MorphOS-ML


 Ambient source code under GPL released
The source code of the current version 1.40 Workbench replacement Ambient by David 'Zapek' Gerber was released today under the GPL.

The latest released version of Ambient together with MorphOS 1.4.2 was V1.29. Next to this the author has set up a Paypal link for users who want to give as a thank you for the release a small donation.

Some features of the current v1.40:
  • MUI-based: The user interface toolkit is MUI (Magic User Interface). It is one of the most flexible and powerful out there. Every window is resizeable thanks to the built-in layout engine. Moreover, the user can change the look of the interface himself. No need to hardcode settings from the main program.
  • Multi-threaded: The whole design of Ambient is asynchronous. One of the key point during the development was that Ambient must never look busy and keep reacting whatever happens. Each job that has a locking possibility (eg. I/O) or can take some time is scheduled to a thread that handles it separately. Conditions which usually upset other desktops, like a network device being unreachable, are not a problem for Ambient.
  • Various icon formats: Ambient handles a numerous format of icons: the original Amiga format, the MagicWB variant with proper remapping, the 256 colors indexed Newicons, the 256 colors indexed Glowicons and its own true color format with alpha based on PNG. Creating an icon is easy, use your favorite paint package and save the icon as PNG.
  • Truecolor rendering: There is no support for CLUT (paletted) modes. This simplifies the internal design greatly as Ambient does quite a lot of graphics processing. 8-bit screens are a thing of the past and not worth supporting with current hardware.
  • 64 Bit arithmetic: 64-bit arithmetic is used for operations related to storage and file handling. Large disks and large files are handled properly.
  • Localisation: Ambient uses a so-called catalog system which means all its strings can be fetched from some external source if the desired language is different than English.
  • Fast I/O: Ambient is very efficient regarding I/O operations and is finetuned to common storage speeds. Its buffers automatically adapt themselves to the given situation.
  • Built-in disk-formatting: Actual formatting of disk partitions can be done from Ambient. The various modes includes quick format, full format and a complex verification format.
  • Different file views: Depending on the media content, a different view can be used. For example an icon view with thumbnails, a list view showing most attributes of files, a view showing pictures. Everything is possible and views are pluggable modules.
  • File handling: Each media can be handled differently depending on its mimetype. Ambient allows to configure exactly what to do with a given media. For example you might want to run some player tool when double clicking on a sound file or use Ambient's built in replayer.
  • Panels: Ambient offers a quick way of creating panels and populating them with programs or applets. There're various options to configure the look and the behaviour of each panel.
  • Visual effects: Ambient has various visual effects to make things nifty and smooth. They are heavily optimized to avoid any impact on the general responsiveness. High quality resizing, alpha effects, blurring, .. they all take advantage of MorphOS' graphics subsystem: CyberGraphX.
  • ARexx support: There's a built in ARexx port which offers scripting support. Ambient uses these commands itself and allows scripts to perform various tasks.
  • Sound engine: Ambient features a built-in sound engine with drivers and API. It allows to play various sounds easily and offers asynchronous modes.
  • Hardware support: Ambient uses Altivec optimized code and takes advantage of the streaming features offered by the Pegasos 2 MPX bus.
This release has been made possible also by Oliver Wagner and Stefan Stuntz, who gave David Gerber the permission for a few include files and parts of code. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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21.Jan.2005
Vinnny (ANF)


 MorphOS: PolyOrganiser & Shorten 3.6.0

PolyOrganiser 0.68

PolyOrganiser written by Frederic 'Polymere' Rignault is a so called "PIM-Tool" (Personal Information Management) which you can use to manage dates, contacts and tasks (screenshot).

Features of PolyOrganiser:
  • PPC-nativ
  • MUI-based user interface
  • Completely localizied
  • Intuitive layout which is similar to a "real" organizer
  • Objects can be linked to each other: A date can be linked with a contact address
  • OpenURL is supported

Link: Homepage

Shorten 3.6.0

"Shorten" is an audio compressing program which can compress audio files to the WAV-format. SHN-files are often used by minor bands which want to release their music over the Internet (examples at archive.org).

Link: Download site. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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21.Jan.2005
ANN (website)


 Linux: GTK-Theme in AmigaOS 4 style
Under the title link you can find a GTK-Theme in AmigaOS 4 style (screenshot). (cg) (Translation: dr)

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21.Jan.2005
AROS-Exec (Forum)


 AROS: TCP/IP-Stack transfered to CVS
The Amiga Research Operating System which is an Open-Source-imitation of AmigaOS 3.1 has transfered a functional TCP/IP-stack to CVS abd therefore has made another great achievement.

AROSTCP written by Neil C. is a Port of AmiTCP 3.0b2. The reward which was given by Team AROS for creating a TCP/IP-stack with support of IP4, TCP, UDP and ICMP as well as a bsdsocket.library-API is 600 US-Dollar. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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20.Jan.2005



 Software News through 20th January 2005

WarpJPEG Datatype 45.4

Oliver Roberts has released a new version of his JPEG datatype "WarpJPEG." The archive contains versions for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and WarpOS. WarpJPEG is shareware.
  • Added native AmigaOS 4 version
  • Updated with the latest WarpDT engine build
  • MorphOS and WarpOS versions recompiled with VBCC 0.8g
  • Added Polish installer translation
  • Updated Spanish and French installers

Link: Homepage
Download: WarpJPEGdt.lha (187 KB)

Shorten 2.3a

"Shorten" is an audio-compression program with which WAV audio can be compressed without loss. SHN data is often used by smaller bands who make their music available for free on the Internet. (samples at archive.org).

Link: homepage
Download: shorten-2.3a.lha (195 KB)

AmiMSN 1.0 WIP (Update)

AmiMSN is a console-based IM client for the MSN network. Written in ARexx.

Download: AmiMSN1.0-WIP.lha (52 KB) (cg) (Translation: dm)

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20.Jan.2005



 Amiga Games Hit Parade: 2004 Game of the Year?
The makers of "Amiga Games Hit Parade" are calling for a vote on the best games of 2004. A corresponding form for the notation of last year's releases may be found under the title link.

From here on the polling is active for the best Amiga games. You can take part in the vote, just send an e-mail with maximum 20 of your favorite games to David "Daff" Brunet. (cg) (Translation: dm)

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20.Jan.2005
Vinnny (ANF)


 ProTracker 5.0: Status Update
The new version (5.0) of ProTracker should appear this spring (current screenshot). A short English-language report about the current status of the Windows version may be found under the title link.

Concerning the MorphOS and Amiga OS4 versions the author notes the following: the MorphOS version has undergone in-depth testing over the last year, and the Amiga version was successfully compiled by Hans-Joerg Frieden, but there were still some problems with the affair as a whole. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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20.Jan.2005
MorphOS-ML


 MorphOS: New Beta-Version Python 2.4
Guillaume Roguez's MorphOS port of the scripting language Python 2.4 is now in new beta-version 0.4beta2.

Python is an object-oriented programming language that was invented by Guido van Rossum in the early 90s at the Center for Science and Information in Amsterdam. The text of a Python program in all implementations is transparently translated into an intermediate code that is executed by an interpreter.

Download: python-2.4-mos_0.4beta2_bin_src.lha (12 MB) (snx) (Translation: dm)

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20.Jan.2005
Vinnny (ANF)


 AmigaOpenOffice.org Website Opened
Click on the title link to see that the AmigaOpenOffice.org website has opened its gates. It's the official project website for an Amiga OS4 port of that office software suite. The publishers want to provide news and a discussion forum among other things. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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20.Jan.2005
(ANF)


 Amiga Inc.: Co-Worker Information Removed from the Website
There's no longer any information to be found on amiga.com about co-workers of the organization. On the corresponding page there are now just two e-mail addresses: developer@amiga.com and information@amiga.com. (cg) (Translation: dm)

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20.Jan.2005
Vinnny (ANF)


 Position Taken on MUI Version 4 for MorphOS
Under the title link you'll find that MUI's developer Stefan Stuntz has articulated his viewpoint of the situation between his user interface and the MorphOS operating system.

In this communication Ralph Schmidt's statement (amiga-news.de reported) is confirmed, that there was an offer to make the new and future versions of MUI available to Genesi at no charge and also to offer them in shareware form to users of AmigaOS 3.X and OS4.

Further, MUI V4 is nearly completed and there is nothing legally binding that prohibits uniform versions being released for all three of the cited operating systems. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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19.Jan.2005
ANN (website)


 Pegasos: Official support by Gentoo Linux
By the title link the Gentoo/PPC team announces official support for Genesi's Pegasos II. Genesi will offer preinstalled Gentoo/PPCsystems in future and give a part of the profits to the Gentoo foundation.

Before the release compilation there are still some minor technical issues to solve. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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19.Jan.2005
abime.net (website)


 CAPS update: 34 more games archived
The CAPS Team that put the back up of old copy-protected Amiga games including their regarding copy protection mechanisms to their agenda, has put another 34 games to the CAPS own format which can be read by newer UAE versions. A list of the newly archived titles is to get by the title link. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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19.Jan.2005
Vinny (#morphos)


 MorphOS: Video capturing with "BTR_8x8"
BTR_8x8 digitizes a PAL video signal by using a PCI video capture card based on the BT8x8" chip set. Digitized is either in a grey scale or with 16 bit colour depth, some examples are available by the title link.

Download: btr.lha (35 KB) (cg) (Translation: ub)

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19.Jan.2005



 MorphOS core developer focuses on embedded devices
As it is to read within the logfile of yesterday's IRC discussion (title link), Ralph 'laire' Schmidt, inventor and main developer of MorphOS, will focus on developmemt of MorhOS for embedded devices as a consequence of the differences with many people of the development team.

For all details read the logfile at the title link. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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19.Jan.2005
Robert Wahnsiedler (e-mail)


 Phoenix Amiga 1000: Latest ROM revision wanted
Because of amiga-news.de readers demand, "Phoenix Micro Technologies" will produce a last series of the Amiga 1000 replacement board A1000 Phoenix.

But the producer lacks the latest version of the SCSI ROM for the Phoenix motherboard. The currently latest available version is revision "J" - the last recent version ever is "Revision N".

If some of our readers might own a ROM of revision N (or some other version more recent that "J"), that person is kindly asked to e-mail to Robert "apex" Wahnsiedler. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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15.Jan.2005



 Software news until 15.01.2005

Lohnsteuer 2005

The shareware program "Lohnsteuer 2005" (for Germany) by Heiko Strohmeier calculates the income and church taxes, valid in Germany.

Link: Homepage
Download: lohnsteuer.lha (155 KB)

CManager 32.1

"Contact Manager" is a central bookmark and address management software.

Link: homepage

TheBar.mcc 18.4

"TheBar" is a MUI class by Alfonso Ranieri to program comfortable button banks.

Link: homepage

codesets.library 3.1

The codesets.library offers support to programmers for the handling of different character codes tables (code pages) and for the conversion of texts.

Link: homepage (cg) (Translation: wk)

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15.Jan.2005
pegasos.org (website)


 MorphOS: tutorial for developing shared libraries
Under the title link you can find a tutorial by Ilkka Lehtoranta that explains the development of PPC native shared libraries for MorphOS. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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15.Jan.2005
Cloanto Amiga Team (ANF)


 Kara N. Blohm (Kara fonts) dead
As Cloanto announced, Kara N. Blohm (1944-2004) died on December, 10th because of a heart attack. In the Amiga scene she became famous especially because of the coloured and animated fonts that she had developed. The complete Kara collection is for quite some time available on Aminet . (snx) (Translation: wk)

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15.Jan.2005
ANN (website)


 AmigaOS4: GUI for Remote Desktop Client
There's now a graphical user interface for AmigaOS 4 available (screenshot) for the Remote Desktop Client (amiga-news.de reported).

The Remote Desktop project team are: Martin Blom, Jörg Strohmayer, Darren Eveland, Sigbjørn Skjæret, Simon Archer, Toaks, restore2003 and JoBBo.

Download: RDesktop-OS4.lha (223 KB) (snx)

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14.Jan.2005
Christian Krenner (ANF)


 Extreme Amiga 600 Upgrading Page: User-Gallery
The "Extreme Amiga 600 Upgrading Page" created by Christian Krenner celebrates its second anniversary and had more than 25,500 visitors.

Because of that a user gallery with photos of several upgraded Amiga 600 computers together with its owners has been created. Owners of further upgraded Amiga 600 computers can also add their photos to the gallery. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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13.Jan.2005
ANN (website)


 MorphOS: Gallerius 1.0
"Gallerius" assists in the creation of HTML thumbnail galleries.

Download: gallerius.lha (129 KB) (cg) (Translation: dm)

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13.Jan.2005
Mareike K. (ANF)


 Meeting Karlsruhe 2005 - #amigager Invited
The Karlsruhe Meeting 2005 (Meka05) occurs starting tomorrow morning at FH Karlsruhe. Mareike K. from the IRC channel #amigager informs:

"The all-year party with cult status was started by Kim 'Kimble' Schmitz, the owner of the IRC channel #amigager. Registrations are accepted at www.meka2005.de. More information is available by clicking on the title link." (snx) (Translation: dm)

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13.Jan.2005
Elbox Computer (ANF)


 Elbox: Dragon Coldfire busboard FAQ released
Under the title link Elbox has released a FAQ about the Dragon, an announced ColdFire-based turbocard and busboard for the Amiga 1200 (amiga-news.de reported). (snx)

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13.Jan.2005
Seg (ANF)


 New VNC client: TwinVNC (Beta)
TwinVNC ist a Virtual Networking Computing client. Beta versions for AmigaOS 3/4 are available on request, a MorphOS version will be available soon.

TwinVNC features:
  • Supported codecs: RAW, RRE, CoRRE, Hextile, ZLibHex, ZlibRaw, ZRle and Tight (with jpeg option)
  • Sub-codecs: Copyrect, RichCursor and XCursor
  • Display: 3, 6, 8, 16 and 32 bits (window (with toolbar option) and full screen support)
  • Supports mousewheel and third button
  • Supports overlay with downscale
  • Supports Page Down/Up, Begin/End, Insert on AmigaOne/Pegasos keyboards
  • Emulates said keys on other machines (using Shift + arrow keys)
  • Switching from fullscreen to window and from overlay to non-overlay mode is possible on the fly
  • Can be iconified

Amongst other things, a graphical user interface is already in development. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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13.Jan.2005
Jörg Brenner (ANF)


 Hardware Compendium: Update of Amiga Hardware World
Right now at AHW there are over 850 expansions listed for the Amiga, each with its own description, many of them with pictures. The current update includes countless new hardware articles and expanded descriptions and 66 new photos - for example a photo of the floppyport expansion Drive Expander, the SCSI controller Rapidfire, and an early revision of the graphic card Picasso II (many thanks to all those who sent it in!).

Beyond that there's now a handbook of the "Apollo 30x0/40x0" CPU cards as well as seven new installation diskettes available for download. A detailed overview of all the current changes to the website may be found here. (cg) (Translation: dm)

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13.Jan.2005
Maniac (ANF)


 Amiga User Meeting in Braunschweig
In the Teutloff School in Braunschweig on the 19th of March 2005 there will be another user meeting. More information may be found under the title link. (cg) (Translation: dm)

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13.Jan.2005
Amiga.org (Forum)


 Amizilla Project: More Prizes for Contributors Announced
The winner of the Pyromania/Millennium bundle (amiga-news.de reported) is Peter Halin, whose donation was the first to put the reward for the browser port over the 9,000 U.S. dollar mark. The current amount is now 9,217 dollars.

Similarly obtaining a Pyromania/Millennium software bundle from DiscreetFX are Darren O'Leary and Mark Bond, whose donation followed right after that of Peter Halin.

Furthermore, DiscreetFX promises everybody who donates after Peter Halin and on the way to the 10,000 dollar mark the same software bundle, should the 10,000 figure be reached by the end of this month. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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13.Jan.2005
ANN (website)


 Update of the Remote Desktop Client
With version 1.3.1cvs of 12th January 2005 the Remote Desktop Client has taken care of a few bugs, such as those with iconification. It's also been adapted to compiler GCC 3.x. Also there's now a native version for Amiga OS4.

For the AmigaOS4-Version, AmiSSL V1 with all the ciphers is required as well as the "OS4 glue files" to be found there.

Furthermore, the Remote Desktop Client FAQ has been expanded. The authors urge you to look at the appropriate section if you have a problem.

This update was made possible through Martin Blom, Jörg Strohmayer and Darren Eveland.

The "remote Desktop Protocol" (RDP) makes it possible to access over a network applications that are implemented on a Windows terminal server. On the user side only a representation of the respective application takes place (screenshot).

Download:
RDesktop-AmigaOS-2005-01-12.lha (236 KB)
RDesktop-Jan12-OS4-Native.lha (96 KB)
RDesktop-MorphOS-2005-01-12.lha (528 KB) (snx) (Translation: dm)

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10.Jan.2005
amigaworld.net (website)


 AmigaOS 4.0 Replacement CDs
Leuven, Belgium - 10 January, 2005

As a service to our loyal customers without broadband Internet, Hyperion Entertainment in collaboration with Soft 3 is now offering all registered Amiga OS 4.0 users the possibility to order a professionally duplicated CD to replace the original Amiga OS 4.0 Developer Pre-release CD which came with your AmigaOne SE or XE.

The new CD not only contains the first Amiga OS 4.0 update and updated SDK which are available for download from our site but also a substantially reworked and updated "contribution folder".

MicroA1 customers need not apply as this CD should already be in their possession.

Further details can be found here. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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08.Jan.2005



 Software news: Meridian 2.10, AmiMSN 1.0 WIP

Meridian 2.10

The commodity Meridian allows the usage of "virtual hotkeys", maybe better known as "mouse gestures". As starting point and direction of the mouse movement are play a role there are uncounted combinations that you can use.

Download: meridian_1_1.lha (321 KB)

AmiMSN 1.0 WIP

AmiMSN, a console based IM client for the MSNB network written in ARexx, is now available as version "1.0 WIP". The changes can be read in the Changelog.

Download: AmiMSN1.0-WIP.lzx (19 KB) (cg) (Translation: wk)

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08.Jan.2005
Pascal Gisin (ANF)


 Text editor: Textloader v8.3 released
Pascal Gisin has created an update for Textloader. This is a text editor for ASCII and FTXT now available in version 8.3. The program can be downloaded using thr title link and should also be available in some days on Aminet in the cathegorie text/edit.

Download: Textloader.lha (639 KB) (snx) (Translation: wk)

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08.Jan.2005
Holger Krefting (ANF)


 Tales of Tamar: 3D drivers for Radeon cards anyone?
Martin Wolf from the Tales of Tamar team is searching for a 3D driver for Radeon cards to develop this medieval MMP fantasy RPG played via e-mail further. He wrote:

"This is a call for help to all developers in the Amiga market! For the time being our developers are among other things busy with the realization of a 3D map for the Amiga. Under the title link you can have a look at some of the first screenshots of an early Amiga beta version that is being developed for now on an Amiga 4000/040 with Cybervision 64/3D.

Though we own some Pegasos computers with Radeon cards there does not seem to exist a 3D driver yet for this system that is made available to developers. It's for sure that an Amiga 4000/040 is to slow to develop a good 3D map on it.

So our question is:
  • Is there a 3D driver for Radeon cards?
  • Is anybody right now developing a 3D driver for Radeon cards?
  • And if such a person exists: would this person possibly be willing to put it at our disposal for the development of the "Tales of Tamar" 3D map for the Amiga or Pegasos?
    (Alternatively we would be ready to distribute the driver via Eternity if such an interest should exist.)
At this time the card is fully functional only under WinUAE with Warp3D emulation or via software renderer. Systems with Voodoo or Permedia2 cards we do not own." (snx) (Translation: wk)

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08.Jan.2005



 New poll: Which operating system is your workhorse?
In our last poll we asked you about your judgement of the Amiga's future and wether you would perhaps be ready to invest once more in an "Amiga" (respectively a clone). The results of this poll can be found here.

In our current poll (title link) we are interested in the operating system you are using privately most:
  • AmigaOS 3 on a real Amiga
  • AmigaOS 3 on an emulator
  • AmigaOS 4
  • MorphOS
  • AROS
  • A combination of 1-5, e.g. OS4 or MorphOS at home, OS3 on a laptop or at work
  • One of the systems named under 1-5 in conjunction with another system (Windows, Mac OS, Linux...)
  • The OS I use most has nothing to do with the Amiga (Windows, Mac OS, Linux...)
The actual result can be found here, while we explicitly point out that the results aren't representative in any way. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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08.Jan.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)


 AmigaOS4: bugfixed version of the game xbill 2.4
The AmigaOS4 port of the small point'n'click shooter xbill was replaced by a bugfixed version after the original OS4 version had crashed very fast on some systems.

The aim of xbill is to prevent the computers supervised by the player from being infected with a widely spread operating system.

Download: xbill_os4.lha (187 KB) (snx) (Translation: wk)

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08.Jan.2005
ANN (website)


 MorphOS: bugfixes for OpenSSH
Marek Szyprowski fixed a bug that existed in all OpenSSH ports for MorphOS until now. With his patch does the key combination Ctrl-C now work correctly under MorphOS 1.4.

openssh-3.9p1-MOS-ttyfix.lha (3.6 MB) (snx) (Translation: wk)

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08.Jan.2005
ANN (website)


 Game: dynAMIte 2.4 released
The Bomberman/Dynablaster clone 'dynAMIte' is now available as version 2.4. The game can be played (only) via TCP/IP by up to eight players.

Changes next to bugfixes are among other things a GoldenHeart bonus (reviving all players in the team mode) and an increasing of the laser limit to ten per card. In addition, the dynAMIteAI.library for MorphOS got an update to version 3.269.

dynAMIte runs on Amigas with a CPU 68020+, AmigaOS 3.x, TCP/IP stack, CyberGraphX/P96 or AGA with BlazeWCP, MUI3.8, AHI, identify.library 13.x,NList.mcc, BetterBalance.mcc (optional) and XPK V4.0 (optional).

Download:
dynAMIte 2.4 (full version) (2 MB)
update to dynAMIte 2.4 (686 KB) (snx) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jan.2005



 Software-News: MUIrc 1.03, amrss 3.2

MUIrc 1.03

MUIrc is an IRC-/bitlbee-client written in ARexx which can communicate with several servers simultaneously and for this it uses a single window performance. MUIrc requires RxMUI 41.1, CManager 31.4 and RxSocket.library (all these archives are available here).

Link: Homepage

amrss 3.2

amrss shows so called "RSS-Feeds" that means short messages in text form as they are offered by amiga-news.de or amiga.org.

Link: Homepage (cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Jan.2005
pegasosforum.de (website)


 MorphOS: Normalize 0.7.6 and KeyMorpher 1.1

Normalize 0.7.6

With Normalize you can correct the volume of different WAV-files to a common level.

Link: Download site

KeyMorpher 1.1

KeyMorpher is a keymap editor for MorphOS.

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

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07.Jan.2005
amigafuture.de (website)


 Emulator: E-UAE 0.8.27 (AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, Linux, Mac OS)
Richard Drummond has published a new version of the Amiga emulator E-UAE. E-UAE is the attempt to make available the newest version of WinUAE to users of different operating systems.

In E-UAE 0.8.27 the compability has been further improved because elements of the "Core Emulation" from WinUAE 0.9.9.x have been used. The 68k-emulator is now 5 % faster because of some optimations and under Mac OS X the emulator now works up to 20 % faster. Furthermore several bugs have been fixed. You can get a complete list of all changes from the Changelog.

The version for Linux (x86) is already available under the title link. Versions for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, Linux (PPC) and Mac OS X will follow soon. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Jan.2005
ANN (website)


 Guide for using Directory Opus Magellan 2 under MorphOS
Under the title link you can find an English FAQ which helps you running Directory Opus Magellan 2 (V5.82) under MorphOS 1.4. The functions which can be changed are listers, datatypes, start menus, buttons, keymap shortcuts and FTP. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Jan.2005
Markus Weiss (mausle) (ANF)


 OpenOffice: Project for Amiga port started
A project which is supposed to port OpenOffice has been started.

In order to make easy the communication of the developers some services have been established:

Obviously it was decided to use SVN for managing the source code versions. Currently it was started preparations for an AmigaOS-Port of SVN. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Jan.2005
Christoph Dietz (E-Mail)


 amiga-news.de: More than 100,000 documents
During the change of the year the message part (including comments) of amiga-news.de has become over 100,000 pages. We want to say thank you to all of our readers for their loyalty and support. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Jan.2005
AMIGAplus


 AMIGAplus 01/2005 (#154) - Lost Games (CD incl. full version of "Liquid Kids")
AMIGAplus 01/2005 (#154) with its cover CD is out now - including the platform game "Liquid Kids" from Ocean which has never been released before! Content of this issue:
  • Lost Games Report
  • Karate Fighter reviewed
  • ReAction coding under OS4 (#1)
  • Amiga and XML (#1)
  • 15 top cameras reviewed in our own photography test laboratory
  • Descent Freespace for OS4 reviewed
  • Demoscene anno 1995
  • Amiga ClassiX 4 review
  • AmigaSys 1.5 review
  • Amiga Meeting 2004 report
  • and many more articles
AMIGAplus is available via subscription and as single order at www.amigaplus.de. (nba)

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06.Jan.2005
Martin 'Mason' Merz (ANF)


 MasonIcons: New Icon archives
The following new and reworked archives are available on the MasonIcons homepage:
  • AWebMIPNG (2nd release)
    • new navigation bar, default images and a transfer anim
    • png icons for AWeb, AWebConfig and AWebJS
  • CardMIPNG (1st release)
    • png icons for mass storage devices
  • RebootMIPNG (1st release)
    • png icon for RebootOS4
  • CardMI (1st release)
    • glowicons (256 colours) for mass storage devices
Visit the title link for further information and previews. (snx)

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06.Jan.2005
amigaworld.net (website)


 AROS: Review of AROS-Max
A short review of the AROS distribution AROS-Max, with which the "Amiga Research Operating System" may either be booted from a CD or tried out under Windows via the use of the emulator QEMU. (cg) (Translation: dm)

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06.Jan.2005
Pegasosforum (website)


 MorphOS: Update of Python 2.4 Port to Version 0.4pre
MorphOS-Version 0.4pre of the scripting language Python 2.4 is available for download in the Pegasos forum.

Python is an object-oriented programming language that was developed by Guido van Rossum in the early 90s at the Center for Scientific Information Applications in Amsterdam. The text of a Python program, in all Python implementations to and including the current one, is transparently translated to a "between code" that may be completely executed by the interpreter. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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05.Jan.2005



 Software News until January the 5th 2005

BenderIRC 1.5b13

The latest version of the IRC client BenderIRC includes the following changes:
  • OpenURL - Plugin ... you requested it now use it :)
  • Version string fixed
  • ARexx-Plugin has been updated to a full working ARexx port
  • Every BenderIRC command like /DCCSEND user file has been adapted in ARexx

The OpenURL plugin "fishes" links from the IRC datastream and passes it to a table, in which every link is openable by click with your preferred browser.

Link: Homepage
Download: BenderIRC.lha (690 KB)

Megadrive emulator: dgen

"dgen" is an Amiga port of the famous Megadrive emulator.

Download: dgen68k.zip (254 KB)

Hatari 0.50

"Hatari" is an Atari ST emulator using the SDL library. Hatari supports all TOS versionen, offers limited GEM support and can mount directories of the host computer or emulate a hard disk via disk image.

Link: Homepage of the Linux version
Download: hatari.zip (638 KB)

Report+ 6.16a

The freeware Report+ is released in version 6.16a. The tool uses ReAction/GadTools, requires AmigaOS 3.9 and offers ten different functions.

Download: ReportPlus.lha (306 KB)

BACK-IT-ALL-UP 10.1

With Back-It-All-Up it is possible to create back ups of a hard disk. The software supports up to eight partitions and drives with more than 4 GB, offers several features and might be run on the Workbench or on its own screen.

Link: Homepage
Download: backitallup101.lha (16 KB) (cg) (Translation: ub)

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05.Jan.2005
MorphZone (website)


 Meridian 2.0 for AmigaOS 3.x and MorphOS released
Guido Mersmann has released version 2.0 of Meridian, a commodity, that allows, like a PDA with writing recognition, the use of virtual hotkeys for e.g. calling programs. Because start point and direction of a mouse movement are taken into account there are close to infinite combinations which are freely useable.

With Meridian it is possible to cycle through screens and windows, to close windows, to cancel requesters, to start programs or start actions by moving the mouse only. That all without visual interface or pop-up menu or dock - only the mouse pointer on the screen.

Features:
  • Commodity
  • Online help
  • Locale support
Download: meridian.lha (246 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)

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05.Jan.2005
MorphZone (website)


 MorphOS: Version 1.9.7 of the Free Pascal compiler released
The Free Pascal compiler for MorphOS is now up to the latest CVS again with the release of version 1.9.7.

The most significant improvement is the support for libraries by using the SysV ABI. Now programs written in Pascal may use TinyGL or PowerSDL.

Download: fpc_20050105.lha (2.8 MB) (snx) (Translation: ub)

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05.Jan.2005
MorphZone (website)


 MorphOS: Idraw model viewer ldview 0.5 released
ldview is a viewer for Lego Idraw model files ldraw-Format (screenshot).

Requirements:
  • MorphOS 1.4 or newer
  • Supported 3D gfx card
  • tinygl 0.2 or newer (part of MorphOS 1.4)
  • Parts of the LDraw 0.27 basic distribution
Download:
ldviewMOS-0.5.lha (23 KB)
ldraw027.zip (1.1 MB) (snx) (Translation: ub)

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01.Jan.2005



 Happy New Year!
The team of amiga-news.de wishes all the readers a Happy New Year and all the best for the coming twelve months! We'd be pleased to see you being loyal to amiga-news.de and the Amiga in 2005! (nba) (Translation: wk)

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01.Jan.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)


 Amiga Demoscene archive: number of productions reaches 430
The Amiga Demoscene archive contains by now a number of more than 430 productions. The latest new entries so far are:
  • Profanity/Darkside
  • Hyper/Focus Design and Scoopex
  • Das EFX/Scoopex
  • Lech/Freezers
  • Torque/Scoopex
  • The Sign/Scoopex
  • Voyage/Razor 1911
  • R.o.m/Essence
  • Death Trial/Mandkind
  • Wicked Sensation/TRSI
  • We will smash u/TRSI
  • 2998z/Darkage
  • Toltec 9/Subspace
The logo gallery contains 112 entries. Leading in the charts is (as it is since its first listing in the A.D.A.) Planet Potion; on the second and third place are Megademo 8 by Kefrens and 4k Big! by Ephidrena.

For all interested in the creation of Amiga demos there are discussions in the A.D.A. forum. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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01.Jan.2005
MorphOS-News.de (website)


 MorphOS: ScummVM 0.7.0 and SeventhSense 0.14a released
Grzegorz Kraszewski released version 0.14a of SeventhSense. The update of this detector for changes of websites became necessary as the previous version stopped working after the installation of the datatype replacement MOSMedia. There are no further improvements.

Also updated was ScummVM, the interpreter for the SCUMM games by LucasArts. The MorphOS version 0.7.0 done by Fabien Coeurjoly uses PowerSDL.

Downloads:
SeventhSense-0.14a.lha (88 KB)
scummvm-0.7.0.lha (1.6 MB) (snx) (Translation: wk)

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31.Dec.2004
Steffen Nitz (ANF)


 SN-FindColour V1.1 published
SN-FindColour is Freeware and meant to find certain colours. Red-, green- and blue-figures can be set with the help of a scroller and thus the colour will be calculated. Besides this it is also possible to enter and calculate HTML colour codes. There is a standard and a MorphOS version (problems with entering fields).

You can find SN-FindColour under "Weitere SN-Archive" on my homepage (title link). (ps) (Translation: dr)

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31.Dec.2004
Steffen Nitz (ANF)


 Announcement of updates of three SN-Archives
In a few days there will be updates of SN-EuroArchiv and 2in1-Project SN-MünzenArchiv II and SN-MarkenArchiv II. For SN-Münz-/Marken-Archiv the HTML-support has been added. Here is a possible example.

Steffen Nitz: "I wish all Amiga users and the users of SN-Archives and the game "Die Kleine Gilde II" a Happy New Year!" (ps) (Translation: dr)

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31.Dec.2004
David Brunet (ANF)


 Game database: Update of the "Amiga Games List"
The "Amiga Games List" (AGL) has been updated and reworked by David Brunet. The AGL tries to list all Amiga games in a clear format. The list contains games, editors and data disks. With 8645 listed games the AGL is the most extensive database for Amiga games.

If you have comments or completions then please contact obligement AT free DOT fr . (cg) (Translation: dr)

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31.Dec.2004
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)


 Liquid Skies records #081
Today the scene group Liquid Skies publishes its 81st music pack. This time it contains a song called "Before Tea Time" which was composed by Lcr reworked by Kuadziw. The cover was created by Kuadziw.

Some further information to the track:
  • Title: Before Tea Time
  • Artist: Lcr feat. Kuadziw
  • Style: Drum'n'bass
  • Play time: 5:08
  • Format: mp3 @ 160 kbps
  • Size: 6 MB (ZIP-packed)

You can download it under the title link.

The LQS-crew wish all people who are interested in music a Happy New Year! (cg) (Translation: dr)

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31.Dec.2004
ANN (website)


 MorphOS: "Weather" shows information to the weather
"Weather" uses the database of weather.com to show you current information about the weather on the Workbench (screenshot).

Weather requires the datatype-system MOSMedia which was published a few days ago (amiga-news.de reported).

Download: weather.lha (490 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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30.Dec.2004
Bernd Roesch (ANF)


 WinUAE: New Online Help
Under the title link you'll find the new online help for WinUAE. The data "winuae.chm" must be placed in the same directory as "WinUAE.exe." Then it can be called with the help button in the WinUAE GUI.

The new online help goes completely on the new WinUAE, including a few screenshots.

Whoever uses UAE for more than games can find some tips for the usage of the emulator under "Tips->Hints for Powerusers" and now the description of the referenced program is also complete.

Whoever wishes to participate in the further development of this documentation, please send a comment to the author to get hold of the corresponding archive. (cg) (Translation: dm)

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30.Dec.2004



 Software News Through 29th December, 2004

vbcc 0.8g patch 3

Another update for the C-compiler vbcc 0.8g has been released. The following problems have been solved:
  • The minimal startup code from vbcc_target_m68k-amigaos, minstart.o, didn't work with latest vlink.
  • New OS3.5 functions for workbench.library and icon.librarary were missing.

Link: homepage

vlink 0.9h

Vlink is a portable linker written in ANSI-C that controls a variety of object and executable data formats. Changes in the new version:
  • Respect ALLOC and NOLOAD flags in binary file generation
  • Linker scripts: NOLOAD was not reset for the following sections

Link: Homepage

HomeBank 3.1 (Beta)

In the newest version of the account manager "HomeBank" a few bugs have been removed.

Link: Homepage
Download: HomeBank31beta.lha (660 KB)
German language catalog data (v3.0): hb_deutsch.lha (6 KB)

Cocktail Shaker

Cocktail Shaker is a database of cocktail and mixed drinks, programmed in Hollywood (screenshots: 1, 2). English and Spanish language versions exist, of course users can assemble their own translations and are called upon to let the author know.

Link: Homepage
Download: cocktailshaker.lzx (1.4 MB)

Worm Wars 8.23

"Worm Wars" is a Tron clone von James "Amigan" Jacobs (screenshot). Version 8.23 contains many small optimizations and bugfixes.

Download: WormWars.lha (699 KB)

Report+ 6.16

Freeware Report+ version 6.16 has been released. The tool is based on ReAction/GadTools, requires AmigaOS 3.9 and offers a variety of functions. For example you can make Aminet "readmes" with Report+, the Commodore Bug Reporting Tool may be replaced, you may show the byte count for any directory. Changes to this newest version:
  • Path size report: optional deletion of .fastdir files
  • Linted source code
  • Bug fixes

Download: ReportPlus.lha (306 KB) (cg) (Translation: dm)

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30.Dec.2004



 Flood Catastrophe: Appeal for Donations
The tidal wave catastrophe in the Indian Ocean causes great shock here at home as well. Aid organizations are dealing with more than 100,000 dead, possibly more than 1,000 of them are from Germany. In this exceptional situation we'd like to call on our readers to help all those affected and to support locally the medical and humanitarian work of the relief organizations. Donate - even small amounts alleviate the emergency! If you would like to help those in the disaster areas, you may donate to the following account links:

[I'm going to put the translated name to the right of the actual organization name for English language readers. If you want to give you should probably use the German language name -DM]

Aktion Deutschland hilft [Germany Helps Campaign]
Alliance of these aid organizations: medeor,
Adra, ASB, AWO, Care, Help, Johanniter, Malteser,
Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband and World Vision
Bank name: Bank für Sozialwirtschaft
Bank code: 370 20 500
Account number: 10 20 30,
Keyword: "Seebeben Südasien" [means "South Asia ocean quake"]

Ärzte für die Dritte Welt [Doctors for the Third World]
Bank name: EKK Bank
Bank code: 500 605 00
Account number: 104 88888 0
Keyword: "Seebebenopfer" [means "ocean quake victims"]

Ärzte ohne Grenzen [Doctors without Borders]
Sparkasse Bonn [Savings Bank Bonn]
Bank code: 38 05 00 00
Account number: 97 0 97
Keyword: "Seebeben" [means "ocean quake"]

Caritas International
Postbank Karlsruhe [Postal Bank Karlsruhe]
Bank code: 660 100 75
Account number: 202 753
Keyword: "Erdbeben-Südasien" [means ocean quake South Asia]

Christoffel-Blindenmission [Christoffel Mission for the Blind]
Sparkasse Bensheim [Savings Bank Bensheim]
Bank code: 509 500 68
Account number: 505 05 05
Keyword: "Südasien"

Deutsches Rotes Kreuz [German Red Cross]
Bank für Sozialwirtschaft [Bank for the Social Economy]
Bank code: 370 205 00
Account number: 41 41 41
Keyword: "Südasien" [means "South Asia"]

Deutsche Welthungerhilfe [German Hunger Relief]
Sparkasse Bonn [Savings Bank Bonn]
Bank Code: 380 500 00
Account number: 20 20
Keyword: "Erdbeben Asien" [means "earthquake Asia"]

Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe [Diakonie Disaster Relief]
Postbank Stuttgart [Postal Bank Stuttgart]
Bank code: 600 100 70
Account number: 502 707
Keyword "Erdbeben-Südasien" [means "earthquake South Asia"]

Kindernothilfe [Children Emergency Help]
KD-Bank
Bank code: 350 601 90
Account number: 45 45 40

Unicef
Bank für Sozialwirtschaft [Bank for the Social Economy]
Bankcode: 370 205 00
Account number: 300 000
Keyword: "Erdbeben Asien" [means "earthquake Asia"]

World Vision
Volksbank Frankfurt [People's Bank Frankfurt]
Bankcode: 501 900 00
Account number: 2020
Keyword: "Tsunami Südasien" [means "Tsunami South Asia"] (nba) (Translation: dm)

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30.Dec.2004



 amiga-news.de: Changes to Editorial Team
Two changes occurred this month in amiga-news.de's editorial team: Alfred Sturm left; he had tended the Amiga Link Directory from June 2000 until December 2004 by adding and deleting websites and putting up a screenshot of each. His responsibilities there have been taken over by Christoph Gutjahr. Don't forget to announce your new Amiga websites in the Amiga Link Directory. Gerhard "Gary7" Schmid ceased his activity as moderator of the "classified advertisements" forum. His successor is Martina Jacobs, who returns to amiga-news.de. She had managed the English language section for three years. We thank our two departing coworkers for their commitment in the last years and wish them for the future all prosperity! (nba) (Translation: dm)

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29.Dec.2004
ANN (website)


 AROS: Latest state of the TCP/IP stack development
By the title link there is a forum thread at AROS-Exec, which contains information about the current state of the TCP/IP stack development for AROS and a screenshot. The latter shows the browser Mosaic and a simple webserver, Cheetah. An e-mail client is in development.

According to that thread there are two stacks under development now. One developer goes for the TCP/IP bounty and develops a SANA2 compatible driver. That stack might, like Roadshow, become an AmiTCP heir and accordingly build on the bsdsocket.library.

The second version is a port of LwIP by those both developers who contributed the screenshot. Currently only loopback is working, but a tap/tun driver for the Linux hosted version of AROS is close. Here, the bsdsocket.library is a regular, disk based library. The first call of that library leads to the start of the stack task and programs may access by the bsdsocket.library the network. But the driver will be a different one. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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29.Dec.2004
S. & R. Raghoebardayal (ANF)


 Coyote Flux: PPC680x0 released as freeware
After lots of bugfixes and updates, PPC680x0 has become freeware and can be downloaded from this site. Both the docs and the program have been updated.

Since PPC680x0 V2.0 is in beta state, please let us know if the program contains any bugs. PPC680x0 has not been tested on machines without custom chips, so we cannot guarantee that it will work on such systems. It should work under UAE. Have fun!

Coyote Flux wishes everyone a happy and excellent 2005! (snx)

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29.Dec.2004
Robin (comments)


 MorphOS: PowerSDL 10.0 released
PowerSDL 10.0 is a MorphOS port of the SDL version 1.2.7 (screenshot of the SDL preferences). It is based on the Amiga version by Gabriele Greco, but was rewritten to a far extent to support the features of MorphOS better.

Some features of PowerSDL:
  • Integrated SDL settings with localization
  • Joystick support
  • CDROM support
  • Overlay support
  • MorphOS integration: SDL programs may be controlled by Exchange or by an ARexx port, windows have an iconify gadget, etc.
Download:
powersdl.lha (147 KB)
powersdl_sdk.lha (946 KB)
powersdl_src.lha (443 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)

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29.Dec.2004
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)


 MorphOS: OpenTTD 0.3.5 svn 1282 (inofficial bug fix release)
By the title link Christian Rosentreter has released the latest SVN snapshot (revision 1282) of OpenTTD (Multiplayer screenshots: #1, #2).

It will be the last SVN version which is compatible with the official release 0.3.5; it removed the scrolling issues with the server list. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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29.Dec.2004
Robin (comments)


 MorphOS: Datatypes replacement MOSMedia released
Grzegorz Kraszewski has created a Datatypes replacement for MorphOS called MOSMedia, which also features streaming. Thus, it is possible to view or listen to files while still downloading them.

Currently it is possible with audio files, an example "Soundplay" is included within the drawer "Examples". To start it it is required to copy the content of the drawer "Classes" to the drawer "MOSSYS:Classes/Multimedia". The implementation of the video codecs and display routines is currently under work.

Download: mosmediapack12.lha (235 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)

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29.Dec.2004
S. Eichholz (ANF)


 Website for the demo party "Breakpoint 2005" online
Since yesterday the website for the demo party "Breakpoint 2005" at Bingen/Rhine is online. Like all the years the party will happen during the Easter days (March 25th to 28th). The website provides all required useful information and also introduces the futuristic looking event location, the "Rundsporthalle". (snx) (Translation: ub)

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27.Dec.2004
Pegasos.org (ANF)


 Event: Registration for PUSH 2005 in Gothenborg has started
It is now possible to register for PUSH 2005. Like last year you will get a discount if you register. Registration does not imply that you have to come and if you fail to show up you will not be required to pay us anything. If you are planning to show up, please register so that we know how many tables to set up.

For the second year PUGS will arrange a computer party in Gothenburg, Sweden. We hope - with your help - that this year's PUSH can be as good as last year, or even better. Everybody is welcome, even without computer. But our focus this year will be on PowerPC computers.

PUSH 2005 will take place February 25-27, Friday from 12:00 to Sunday 12:00. (snx)

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27.Dec.2004
Vinnny (ANF)


 Russia: 'Amiga Information Center' celebrates its 5th anniversary
Today Amiga Information Center (AiC) is celebrating its 5th anniversary. For five years now AiC is supporting Russian Amiga users with fresh news and support. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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24.Dec.2004
AROS-Exec (website)


 New Bounty-Project started for AROS: Kickstart replacement
TeamAROS-Bounty #23 is dedicated to the creation of a fully working Kickstart-ROM-replacement for AROS under UAE. Currently the project is supported with 100 US-Dollar. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Dec.2004
Dennis Lohr (ANF)


 Music: New track on Psyria-Homepage
Dennis Lohr wrote: "...and the fire still burns! This year there is another track by Psyria. Because at the beginning of 2004 there was only one download to Christmas there is an exclusive title for all fans. 'Electronic Knights' can be downloaded in the FinalMaster-Studio version.

I wish all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Amiga Year." (snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Dec.2004
AmiATLAS Development Team (ANF)


 MERRY CHRISTMAS: Christmas greeting from the AmiATLAS - Team
The "AmiATLAS Development team" wishes contemplative and peaceful Christmas with many presents for all users.

On this way we also would like to thank those which have supported to us this year in varied manner. We hope that you are involved also next year again.

And if we had one more wish freely, we would wish for all that it goes next year with the Amiga, finally, again uphill going.

Happy Christmas!

Gerd Frank
Manfred Rohde
www.amiatlas.de
www.mrworld.de (cg) (Translation: cg)

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24.Dec.2004
RMS Communications - Christoph Pölzl (ANF)


 Image editor: Pixel32 for MorphOS announced
Pavel Kanzelsberger, author of Pixel32, announces under the title link a port for MorphOS, to be presented in a few weeks. Pixel32 is an image/photo/animation painting/editing and retouching application usable for all kind of graphicians, but best for web designers (screenshot).

Some of its features:
  • multiplatform design with own skinnable GUI, which allows us running Pixel32 in Windows, BeOS and even in DOS
  • most of routines written in highly optimized 32-bit assembler decreasing program's size and increasing its speed
  • plugin architecture allows adding new effects, import/export plugins but also new dynamic brushes (called BrushFX), layer types etc.
  • supporting all popular file formats
  • support for layers, channels, masks, selections
  • support for animations, image clickmaps, slices, web optimizations and other webtools simplyfing your work
  • variety of brushes, including animated and full color brushes
  • variety of patterns allowing pattern-painting, texturizing and more
  • variety of color/alpha gradients with universal usage
  • templates, styles, layouts...
  • and much more...
Currently, as a Christmas present, Pixel32 can be purchased for USD 20 until end of the year. If one registers now, all updates until next major release (v2.0) will be free. Furthermore, the registration is platform independent, so that one can use his license also with upcoming ports to other operating systems.

There are demo versions of the current version 1.0 RC2 for Windows, Linux and BeOS/Zeta as well as of version 0.99.8 also for QNX, Solaris and MS-DOS. In these demo versions there are only two limitations: a visible watermark in the images and a small annoying dialog box informing about the usage of a demo version. (snx)

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24.Dec.2004
ANN (website)


 Instant Messenger: Update of AmiMSN to V1.0rc5
AmiMSN which is an in ARexx written, console based IM-client for the MSN-Network is now available in version 1.0rc5.

Changes and improvements:
  • Changed: Everything placed into one main executeable
  • Fixed: You now can't initiate a conversation with someone offline
  • Fixed: In some cases AmiMSN would try reading a message that wasn't there
  • Added: P4-Context header is now parsed. Needed for BOT2K3
  • Added: Notification server disconnection messages now parsed
  • Added: AmiMSN.cfg now has a version number
Download: AmiMSN-1.0rc5.lha (38 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Dec.2004
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)


 E-mail Client: SimpleMail 0.24 (Update)
Today version 0.24 of the MUI based e-mail client called "SimpleMail" has been published. Changes:
  • Message preview in main window
  • Import of Outlook Express message files (.dbx files)
  • New address book with seperate group and contact management
  • More possibilities of configuring the application icon
  • ARexx port improvement: GETMAILSTAT, FOLDERINFO
  • Bug fixes and other minor improvements
  • First official OS4 version

Currently the OS3 and OS4 version are available. The MorphOS version will probably follow this day. Please check if you have installed the newest versions of the NList-classes which have been published few days ago.

The SimpleMail team wishes you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Update: (17:25, 24.12.04, snx)
Now the MorphOS version is also available. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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24.Dec.2004
ANN (website)


 PegXMac V1.3 also finished for AmigaOne
David Bentham has a Christmas surprise for all AmigaOne users: His live-CD PegXMac is now available in version 1.3 also for this platform. PegXMac allows starting Mac OS with the help of Mac-on-Linux without installing Linux before.

The AmigaOne version was tested by Sinan Gürkan and Ross Vumbaca and is equivalent to the Pegasos II version except the use of MOL 0.9.70+. On the AmigaOne only MOL 0.9.68 runs because it is not an Open Firmware platform and therefore newer MOL versions need specific adaptations. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Dec.2004
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)


 MorphOS: OpenTTD 0.3.5
Christian Rosentreter announces that the new version of OpenTTD (which is an Open Source clone of the well-known strategy game Transport Tycoon Deluxe) has been finished and with it he wishes all MorphOS- and Amiga-users a Merry Christmas.

Important changes:
  • [Network] New network, very stable, a lot of new features
  • [Network] Ingame Serverlist (with online game-servers to join
  • [Network] Webbased Serverlist: http://servers.openttd.org/
  • [Network] Added dedicated server support
  • [Network] Cheat protection in MultiPlayer
  • [Network] Patch settings are also synced with the server
  • [Network] Chat
  • Custom currency settings
  • Per-station vehicle lists
  • More realistically sized catchment areas
  • Sticky windows
  • Even better support for new grf-files
  • Implement improved vehicle loading algorithm
  • Even more advanced in-game console (press ^ to open it)
  • OpenTTD runs with the grf files of the DOS version
  • [Big Endian Systems (MacOS, MorphOS, LinuxPPC)]: are able to load savegames by TTD(Patch)
  • new languages: Spanish, Catalan and Icelandic
  • And many, many more things....
If you want to know the complete list of changes then have a look at ChangeLog which the archive contains. The archive can be downloaded under the title link.

Comments:
  • Currently the "Dedicated Server"-support (OpenTTD -D) does not work with Amiga TCP/IP-stacks. But the game itself can create a normal server. Games between Windows, Linux, MacOS and MorphOS are possible without any problems.
  • The Amiga68k-support in the source code possibly is not working because of the many changes. Christian Rosentreter (karibu@gmx.net) himself cannot test the new code under 68k and therefore he asks for feedback and diff-files to be able to fix existing problems in the new network code.
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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23.Dec.2004
Robin (ANF)


 Update of Hollywood Game TriMa'gic
The Hollywood game TriMa'gic has reached version 1.0 for 68k, WarpUp and MorphOS; the wishes of Tristan Mangold (TriMa) have been realized.

New developments are that sounds have been added, one can right-click to turn in the other direction as well, and because someone who preferred it asked for it, the game may be skinned to the darker original version. It comes with both skins. To do this some bugs with the ring-selection were overcome.

Along with the main page (under the title-link) there's a mirror.

The author thanks Tristan Mangold for his game skin, his idea and the suggestions for improvement and wishes everyone a happy celebration and a great New Year. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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23.Dec.2004
morphos-news.de (website)


 MorphOS: New Screenshots of "Rage Hard"
Under the title link you'll find some new screenshots of Titan's tactically-enduring multiplayer 3D-Shooter "Rage Hard." (cg) (Translation: dm)

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23.Dec.2004
Werner Lange (E-Mail)


 HCS Lange: Auction of Spare Parts after Closing of Workshop
Werner Lange, of the former Commodore and Amiga service HCS Lange (Detmold, Germany), announces that he's auctioning on EBay the remaining spare parts from his workshop as well as other Amiga accessories.

Among the things available are hundreds of ICs, and also computers, disks, a range of brackets, magazines, service manuals, folders and much more. Those interested may find these offers from Werner Lange under the e-mail seller ID "welandt." (snx) (Translation: dm)

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23.Dec.2004
amiga.org (website)


 New PowerPC Products for the Classic Amiga (update)
ACK Software Controls, Inc. is pleased to announce two new products for the Amiga 1200. The first product is a Freescale 8245 based CPU card clocked at 400 MHz.

The card will have a SODIMM slot for memory expansion and also includes a Silicon Images 680 IDE controller and a Radeon Mobility graphics chip. This CPU card will fit in standard A1200 cases, but a towered system is recommended.

The second product is a modular busboard and CPU combination for use with towered A1200 machines. The bus board features an AGP 1X slot and three PCI slots. Additional features of the busboard include two DDR DIMM slots for memory expansion, a Silicon Images 680 IDE controller, onboard USB and ethernet. The CPU card will initially be a 750CXe product, but other CPUs will be available.

Both products will ship with an OEM version of AmigaOS 4 and contain a version of U-Boot as the firmware. Products are presently in prototype form running Linux and will be available in Q1 2005. Additional information will follow in the new year.

Sincerely,

Adam Kowalczyk
ACK Software Controls, Inc.

Update: (24.12.04, 2:30, cg)

In a thread on amiga.org, Adam Kowalczyk states that similar expansions are in the works as well. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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23.Dec.2004
Bernd Roesch (ANF)


 WinUAE 1.0 public beta #3, Remarks on Postscript Printing
With version 0.9.92 the WinUAE Team is possibly releasing the last beta-version before the final release 1.0. Whoever is able to locate bugs is asked to advise the authors.

There is now better online help that explains about printing and the "autoflush" function more clearly.

Changes in WinUAE 0.9.92:

Bug fixes:
  • Regular HDF TD_GEOMETRY returned incorrect data (caused some larger HDF's fail to mount, 0.9.91 only)
  • Filesystem bug fix (0.9.90-91), files with Windows System or Hidden -flag set didn't open properly in all cases
  • Stardust starwars-scroller in cycle-exact mode
  • SuperStardust AGA tunnel-section and Superfrog intro bee flashing plus other sprite emulation fixes
  • Random disk formatting verify errors when using non-turbo mode (was broken couple of releases ago)
  • Display corruption/crashes if display width was larger than 1024 and display depth was 32bit (only native display mode, Picasso96 was unaffected)
  • Windowed mode window close button didn't work if "Use CTRL+F11 to quit" was enabled
  • Input-panel autofire yes/no-selection
  • AVIOutput video recording bug in interlaced modes

New features:
  • Filesystem emulation now uses NTFS named streams to store Amiga FS protection flags and comment instead of __UAEFSDB.__-files (non-NTFS drives still use old method)
  • Postscript printer emulation using Ghostscript. All Windows supported printers work now. Amiga-side only needs standard Amiga Postscript printer driver
  • Automatic print job flush after user configurable timeout
  • Improved hardfile creation, filesystem selection (OFS/FFS/SFS) etc.
  • Disk swapper key shortcuts:
    • END+1-0 (not numeric keypad) = insert image from swapper slot 1-10
    • END+SHIFT+1-0 = insert image from swapper slot 11-20
    • END+CTRL+1-4 = select drive

  • GUI drag'n'drop (no more ugly up/down arrows)
  • Screenshots are now named _xxx.bmp
  • User configurable emulation speed adjustment from 5 to 100 fps
  • Rar and 7zip -archive support (using archiveaccess.dll)
  • Some custom chipset emulation improvements here and there
  • Improved drive click sound emulation
  • X-Arcade build-in key mappings
  • Onscreen disk and HD leds flash red while writing
  • "Always on top"-windowed mode setting

[Rest of long article not translated. It was mostly about printing and Christmas greeting from Bernd Roesch. -DM] (cg) (Translation: dm)

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23.Dec.2004



 distributed.net: PowerPC/AmigaOS Surpasses x86/DOS in the RC5-72 Competition
The PowerPC/AmigaOS platform zipped past x86/DOS sooner than expected, taking 14th place among platform rankings. PowerPC/AmigaOS now finds itself directly behind PowerPC/MorphOS, which is itself coming up quickly behind X86/NetBSD and is projected to catch it on 24th February, 2005. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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23.Dec.2004
Amigaworld.net (Forum)


 New Debian Install ISO Image for the Amiga One
Under the title link there's a new Debian installation ISO image for AmigaOne computers ready for download. The only addition since the previous version is the standard use of kernel 2.4.26. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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22.Dec.2004
amigafuture.de (website)


 MorphOS: System patch "Zapper"
"Zapper" modifies the ZipWindow() function of the intuition.library, i.e. the behaviour of the "Zoom" gadget at the top right border of a window. Instead of switching between two different window sizes, it resizes the window to full screen by click now. If the title bar is enabled that will be kept free.

Zapper also may be used in "Smart Resizing" mode which resizes windows only on the not already used screen area and does not hide other windows.

Direct download: zapper_0.9.lha (20 KB) (Readme) (cg) (Translation: ub)

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22.Dec.2004
Amiforce (ANF)


 Amiforce/Abakus-Design: Seasonig greetings and Snowman (Classic)
With Snowman (Classic) a tiny Christmas game is available at Abakus-Design. Unfortunately an entire new game was due lack of time not possible and the same reason lead to only minor changes to the game:

The game is running in 800x600 with any colour depth. Also on classic Amigas it should run without problems. Some new figures were pixeled which are now on wood plates. Thus, the game comes closer to the C64 original version. The archive is about 10 MB in size.

Last but not least Telemar Rosenberger and Franz Schlick wish a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2005. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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22.Dec.2004
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)


 MP3 player: AmigaAMP 2.13
Thomas Wenzel writes:

"Just on time for Christmas there is an update for AmigaAMP. It is nothing world moving; I just fixed some bugs. New features aren't there, but code maintaining is better than nothing, I guess.

For example the old version 2.12 messed badly around with several state messages of the mpega.library which are not used by the original, but are by the libmad version. Directories containing brackets in their name could not be added to the playlist, etc.

All that and some other smaller bugs are now fixed and the program gained further stability.

Enjoy it" (cg) (Translation: ub)

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22.Dec.2004
Sylvio.k (ANF)


 Soms3d: Xmas edition
The Soms3d team wishes a Merry Christmas and a Hapy New Year to all Amiga users! As a little present there is a special edition of the Soms3d-Engine available (5 MB, requires PPC/Warp3d). (snx) (Translation: ub)

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22.Dec.2004
Thomas Steiding (ANF)


 Robin Hood coming for MorphOS
"Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood", originally developed by Spellbound Entertainment for the PC, will soon continue his adventures on the Pegasos. The MorphOS version of Robin Hood has just reached "first playable" on the Pegasos. A demo version will be released soon and the game is expected to start shipping in QI/2005 for MorphOS.

About "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood":

Do not only take on the role of the hero Robin Hood, but also the roles of his faithful vassals and take them to the battle field against the nasty Prince John Lackland. In doing so you are able to enjoy the fabulous English landscape of 1190 as well as the giant castles and funny characters. The thrilling story is introduced by an award-winning introduction and transfers you directly into the hero\s body with the first mission, in which you have to set the captive comrades free. Take up the battle against the oppressors and free the farmers from the Prince\s reign! Be smart, be fast! Be Robin Hood!

Features:
  • More than 30 non-linear missions in which, for instance, you have to save Little John and Brother Tuck and prevent a wedding between Marianne and the revolting Guy of Gisbourne or attack the taxation collectors of the Sheriff of Nottingham
  • Visit five giant castles on different ways, at day and night times, and at different weather conditions
  • Play with up to nine integrated characters being outstanding due to their specific abilities and qualities
  • Due to an innovative fighting system you are able to control the hero\s sword in battles by mouse
  • Decide yourself which tactic appears to be the right one for you: reach the goal by creeping around the guards or fight bravely using sword and bow
System requirements:
  • Pegasos I/II at 600 MHz or better
  • 128 MB RAM
  • Radeon 7000 or better
  • MorphOS 1.4.x
More information on "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood" can be found at:
www.epic-interactive.com
www.spellbound.de
www.robinhood-game.com (snx)

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22.Dec.2004
ANF


 Community site for the ColdFire board Dragon opened
At http://dragon.amigaworld.de/ DJBase opened the first community website for Elbox announced ColdFire board Dragon for the Amiga 1200. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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