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19.Apr.2004
Sigbjørn Skjæret (IRC)


 MorphOS: VCDGear 1.76 released
VCDGear lets you extract MPEG streams out of CD images or convert VCD files into MPEG files.

Further information is available at http://www.vcdgear.com/. (cr) (Translation: sk)

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19.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)


 Tutorial: BlizzardPPC overclocking
Brian Hoskins explains in his tutorial how to overclock a BlizzardPPC. (cg) (Translation: sk)

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19.Apr.2004



 MorphOS: FIGlet 2.2
Ali Akcaagac did port FIGlet to MorphOS. FIGlet can compose big writings of ASCII signs (MorphOS-Screenshots: 1, 2).

Direct download. figlet-2.2.lzx (170 KB) (cg) (Translation: sk)

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18.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)


 MorphOS: Sound Exchange ("SoX") 12.17 (noixemul)
SoX (also known as Sound eXchange) is a commandline tool which translates sound files between different file formats, and optionally applies various sound effects.

SoX is intended as the Swiss Army knife of sound processing tools. It doesn't do anything very well, but sooner or later it comes in very handy. The no-ixemul MorphOS version was build against libmad and libmp3lame and comes therefore with mp3 support. Following formats are supported:

aiff, auto, avr, cdr, cvs, dat, vms, gsm, hcom, maud, mp3, nul, prc, raw, sb, sf, sl, smp, sndt, sph, 8svx, sw, txw, voc, wav, wve and a few more. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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17.Apr.2004
amiga.org (website)


 Interview with the doers of amigashare.com
On amigacentre.co.uk you can find an interview with one of the founders of amigashare.com.

The aim of amigashare.com is to become a comprehensive download portal for Amiga software. Planned are also "sponsorship" programs where users give financial support for projects. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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17.Apr.2004
Obligement (ANF)


 Magazine: Obligement #44 out now
Issue 44 (1.3 MB) of the French AmigaOS/MorphOS magazine Obligement is now available.

You can read in this issue: latest Amiga news, interview with Oliver Hannaford-Day (Coldfusion project) and with David Boisset (from Triple A association), reviews of Invasion and PairsNG, articles about Ogg Vorbis, ICQ, domain names, TView, Song Player and lot of other things. (snx)

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17.Apr.2004
ANN (website)


 MorphOS: board-game "Quadromania"
Ali Akcaagac has ported the board-game Quadromania to MorphOS.

Direct download: quadromania-0.2.lzx (426 KB) (cg) (Translation: wk)

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17.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)


 TV: The Amiga on 3sat (German TV programme), today 18:30 h
The (German) TV show "neues" on 3sat will report about the Amiga today (18:30 h). Following the title link you can find the subjects that will be handled in the report:
  • Die AmiGBG in Göteborg
  • Presentation of AmigaOne and AmigaOS 4
  • MacOS (via Mac on Linux) on the AmigaOne
  • Amiga Forever 6.0

Further information about the programme can be found following the title link. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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17.Apr.2004
ANN (website)


 DTP: PDF import for Pagestream
Grashopper LLC announce in the April issue of their newsletter as well as on their homepage the completion of a first version of a PDF import filter for Pagestream.

The filter allows to open and edit existing PDF documents. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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17.Apr.2004
ANN (website)


 MorphOS: New version of "DOSBox"
The emulator DOSBox emulates a DOS environment to make old PC games running on newer computers. For MorphOS is now a new version of the emulator available.

The most important changes:
  • CD-ROM support
  • 25% faster than the previous version
  • runs now more stable

Direct download: DOSBox.lha (565 KB) (cg) (Translation: wk)

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17.Apr.2004
Norman Walter (ANF)


 Ghostscript: Spooky V1.0 released
Spooky is a small collection of scripts that make the use of Ghostscript easier. The Postscript respectively PDF files can be chosen via ASL requester. An installer script makes the installation easier. Needs Ghostscript 8.0. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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17.Apr.2004
MorphZone (website)


 MorphOS: ShapeShow 1.0 released (update)
The fun program ShapeShow (24 KB) creates moveable windows out of graphics that can be round, with a hole or of another shape. The current version 1.0 still runs not stable, though (memory fragmentation, etc.) and can therefore lead to a crash!

Update (17-Apr-04, cr):

The author points in the comments out that there are only problems if you're using hacks like SmartWin. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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17.Apr.2004
ANN (website)


 MorphOS: VIM 6.2.479 released
Ali Akcaagac has released VIM 6.2.479 for MorphOS.

The update of the text editor known from the Unix world contains next to the improvements by Bram Moolenar, the author and administrator of VIM, some smaller changes for MorphOS - for example the file s:color-startup that gives the shell ANSI colours. Further information can be taken from the included manual. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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17.Apr.2004
ANN (website)


 MorphOS: MLdonkey 2.5-18 released
MLdonkey for MorphOS is now available in version 2.5-18 (2.4 MB). The package has been assembled because of the continuity by Ali Akcaagac in the same way as it has been handled in the past by Sigbjørn Skjærets and Christian Rosentreters MLdonkey ports.

MLdonkey is a peer-to-peer client for many platforms and networks. Supported networks are for example eDonkey, Overnet, Bittorrent, Gnutella, Gnutella2, Fasttrack, Soulseek, Direct-Connect and Opennap. It can be controlled locally as well as remote with interface for e.g. telnet and http. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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17.Apr.2004
ANN (website)


 MorphOS: LTris ported
Ali Akcaagac has ported (684 KB) LTris 1.0.6-SDL for MorphOS. It is recommended to play LTris in the full screen mode.

LTris is a Tetris clone with several game modes - next to the classic version there's a multiplayer mode to play against human or computer competitors as well as a demo mode with the computer playing alone. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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17.Apr.2004
ANN (website)


 Announcement: First Pegasos-Live CD boots Linux/Mac-on-Linux
The PegXLin developer David Bentham announces the first Linux-Live CD for the Pegasos I and II that is for the time being mainly meant to start the version 0.70 of the program Mac-on-Linux.

By this it is possible to start the Pegasos like a real Macintosh computer (the operating system is not included). The Live CD is in the beta testing phase and shall be made available for download soon. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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17.Apr.2004
Andreas Boehm (e-mail)


 Event: XzentriX meeting 2004
In Seeshaupt (appr. 40 km south from Munich) takes from September, 3rd to September 5th 2004 again a XzentriX meeting place - for all "computer friends who believe in a live beyond the standard software".

This is an event for Amiga, Archimedes, Apple I/Apple II, Atari, C64/C128/C16/VC20, CP/M, CPC, Joyce, MSX, NeXT, X68000, Acorn BBC, RiscPC, TI 99/4A and everything else that is 8bit or cult out of other reasons. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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17.Apr.2004
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)


 Amiga User List: GAUHPIL Database now complete
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a list created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll, containing websites of Amiga users, ordered by continents and countries.

Meanwhile, the GAUHPIL has been converted into a MySQL based database solution. The remaining static HTML pages have been replaced, so that all pages form a closed union again.

On the Welcome page you can find notes about registration. But this is only a preliminary version. Be prepared for things to come! (snx)

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17.Apr.2004
Linspire


 Linspire (formerly Lindows) as free download
Because of the necessary name change for the operating system Lindows (that is meant to be some kind of symbiosis of Linux and Windows) due to the law suit with the competitor Microsoft into Linspire has the distributor decided to make the current version 4.5 of the product available for a free download for some days. According to the website is a PC with at least 800 MHz clock and 128 MByte RAM needed to use the software. Further information regarding the necessary conditions can be found under the title link. (cs) (Translation: wk)

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16.Apr.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)


 AmigaOS 4: Prerelease "goes Gold"
Hyperion announces that the Amiga 4-Prerelease has been finished and it will be copied from next Monday on.

The prerelease contains a snapshot of AmigaOS 4, a polyglot installation guide (English, German, France and Italian) as well as the AmigaOS 4.0 SDK.

The SDK contains the following components:
  • Full installation routine for simple and uncomplicated installation
  • GNU C Compiler 2.95.3
  • GNU C Compiler 3.4.0 RC 1
  • vbcc 0.8f
  • GNU GDB Source-Level Debugger
  • System Includes V 50
  • System Autodocs V 50
  • PDF-Documentation for the GNU C Compiler and the GNU Debugger
  • PDF-Document "Project Migration to AmigaOS 4.0"
  • Example programs with source codes (Reaction, expansion.library, Roadshow, FFS2)
  • Newlib.library (experimental shared C library)
  • CLIB2 Source-Code

Users can register their copy of the prerelease on the portal site which will go online soon and which will offer things for download that refer to AmigaOS 4. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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16.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)


 Videos and Audio records of AmiGBG 2004
Under the title link you can find several videos and audio records of the "AmiGBG" (Göteborg, April 3rd), e.g. statements of Ben Hermans, Alan Redhouse or Jens Schönfeld. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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16.Apr.2004
Heise (ANF)


 Foundation makes Microsoft FAT-Patent dubious
Since December 2003 Microsoft has demanded licence charges for "FAT" (a widely spread file system which is used on flash-memory or on older Windows versions). It is possible because the company has got a patent for this technology.

The Public Patent Foundation has requested at the US Patent Office to check this patent. Obviously the Foundation thinks to prove that parts of the technology existed before Microsoft implemented it. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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16.Apr.2004
Ron van Herk (e-mail)


 Computer City: MediaPoint available for download
The Dutch Amiga dealer Computer City has opened a website for the presentation software MediaPoint at http://www.mediapoint.biz. Registered users of the site can freely download the full MediaPoint package (for "classic" Amigas) as well as the manuals and the full sources.

Furthermore, Computer City announces Amiga Party Promotions: During the Amiga-Party in Maarssen on April 17th, Computer City will offer special prices on some products. During this day, all these items will also be available for online ordering, for those who cannot attend the Amiga Party. For more information, please visit the "Amiga Party Promotions" section at the Computer City webshop.

At the Amiga Party, Computer City will also demonstrate the final version 6.0.1.0 of Amiga Forever for the first time.

Update: (10:10, 16.04.04, snx)
Later today also the MorphOS version and the CGX support sources will be added. (snx)

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15.Apr.2004
AmigaForever.com (ANF)


 Cloanto released Amiga Forever 6.0
April 15, 2004 - Cloanto released today version 6.0 of Amiga Forever, the Classic Amiga emulation, OS, connectivity and support suite officially licensed by the Amiga companies.

Amiga Forever is available in a downloadable Online Edition and in a CD Edition which includes premium content of historical interest (all Amiga OS versions, gallery, videos, games) and KX Light. All versions of Amiga Forever include Amiga OS 1.3 and 3.X files and make it possible to run Classic Amiga software (including hundreds of legally downloadable games) on any PC, with special support for the Windows platform, but also compatible with Mac OS X and GNU/Linux systems.

Amiga Forever 6.0 is a completely restructured package which took more than two years to complete. New features include:
  • Preinstalled Amiga applications more than doubled (both in the 3.X and in the 1.3 environments)
  • Support for hard disks larger than 4 GB, mouse wheel, AHI, MUI, etc.
  • Built-in web browser, great for both "safe surfing" and for cross-browser web design testing (e.g. to see how your sites look without Java, Flash or ActiveX)
  • CDs are now automounted in real time (includes CacheCDFS file system)
  • Built-in CD audio player and media player
  • New Amiga ROM and OS files (as in Amiga OS "3.5" and "3.9", but also historical items such as the Amiga 1000 boot ROM)
  • New reference configurations (for A500, A1200, CDTV, CD32, etc.)
  • More than 10 "First Demos" (Boing, Robo-City, Juggler, etc.) added to 1.3 environment
  • More realistic emulation (e.g. floppy disk drive sound, which makes an unexpected big difference in perception, but also required the addition of a good old "noclick" utility ;-)
  • New documentation (HTML shared by both Amiga and host OS)
  • Amiga Explorer 6.0 software
  • New launcher panel with one-click controls
  • New Software Manager for easy emulation news and updates

The CD Edition of Amiga Forever additionally includes the following new features:
  • Boot from CD option (featuring the KX Light GNU/Linux distribution)
  • New Gallery section (includes 1985 Byte Magazine reprint)
  • New high quality videos (includes Launch of Amiga New York event)
  • New preinstalled games (Mindwalker, Ports of Call, Deluxe Galaga, etc.)

(Please refer to the Amiga Forever web site for important additional information and screenshots.)

Classic Amiga software compatibility is achieved by means of an Amiga hardware emulation layer (configurable to emulate different Amiga models and custom chip sets) and different versions of the original Amiga OS (not an emulation). The Amiga environment in turn relies on host operating system functionality to transparently enable modern features such as up-to-date hardware drivers, virtual memory, WiFi networking, DirectX technology, advanced power management, Serial ATA storage, etc.

Amiga Forever 6.0 is scheduled to be featured on 3sat TV's "neues" show, on April 17, at 18:30 (via Astra satellite), and at the Amiga Party in Maarssen, the Netherlands, also on April 17.

As always, the Amiga Forever Team at Cloanto would like to thank the Amiga Community for its support over these almost 20 years, which made this new version possible. (cg)

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15.Apr.2004
MaxWorld (ANF)


 MUI: Preview of the Upcoming PNG Button Class
MaxWorld has prepared a preview (107 KB) of its PNG button class for MUI. The idea came from PNG icons. This class should make possible the use of 24 bit PNG pictures with Alpha transparencies under MUI.

The purpose of this preview of the work-in-progress MUI class is, firstly, to get feedback regarding results with various configuration of Amigas. Following that there should then be a free external MUI class. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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15.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)


 Convention: Amiga Meeting and Pegasos Show in Lodz (Poland)
On the 15th of May in Lodz, Poland, Amiga-Meeting 2004 takes place. The computers Pegasos II and AmigaOne will be on hand, as well as the retailers eFUNZINe, Matay and X-Soft. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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15.Apr.2004
Andreas Boehm (E-Mail)


 Convention: Vintage Computer Festival Europe
On 1st and 2nd May 2004 in Munich the Vintage Computer Festival is taking place for the fifth time. The aim of this convention is, according to the organizers, "to promote the preservation and care of 'historical' computers and other (E)DV equipment, to awaken interest in 'excess' hard and software, and above all to live this all up with some fun." The Amiga 1200 will be displayed. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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15.Apr.2004
ANN (Webseite)


 AutoDocReader: Dutch Version Available (Update)
AutoDocReader has now also been translated into Dutch, thanks to Bas Overtoom.

Update: (11:35, 16.04.04, snx)
In the meantime Dank Valwit provided a German version. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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15.Apr.2004
Golem (Website)


 Golem: Apple Makes EMacs Faster and Cheaper
Apple is going to fortify its position in the desktop market by making faster, cheaper eMac models. The entry-level machine comes at the price of 849 euros in the shops and makes use of a 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4 processor, 256 megabytes of 333 MHz DDR SDRAM, a 32X combo drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW), as well as an ATI Radeon 9200 with 32 megabytes of video RAM. Read the complete story [in German -dm] at Golem IT News under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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14.Apr.2004
Andreas Falkenhahn (e-mail)


 Hollywood Designer 1.0 released
After a long development time, Hollywood Designer 1.0 is now available and can be ordered on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. Hollywood Designer is a high-end presentation software that creates together with Hollywood 1.9 the ultimate Multimedia suite for your Amiga or Pegasos.


About Hollywood Designer:

Hollywood Designer is a state-of-the-art WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor for presentations. You can create amazing presentations with just a few clicks and they will be shown with Hollywood then. You can also save your presentations as stand-alone executables for AmigaOS, WarpOS and MorphOS. Additionally, your presentations can be saved as Hollywood scripts. Pages can be exported as single pictures too so that you can e.g. embed them in a HTML page. The program makes project management very easy by organizing all your project files in one directory which you can administrate with the inbuilt data manager. If you create a new project with Hollywood Designer, it will create a whole environment for your work complete with icons, drawers and info files. It just can't get any easier!

Hollywood Designer has everything you would expect from a modern multimedia application: Many colorful icons, images and toolbars, extensive online help system, undo/redo, context menus, recent menu, clipboard usage, keyboard control and a completely localized interface. It uses a page-pased presentation concept, which means that your project consists of as many pages as you want and each page consists of as many objects as you want. Objects are for example texts, animations, brushes and graphics forms. It has a powerful layout window where you can easily drag all objects around with the mouse, change the look of your pages and modify the objects attributes. Everything is implemented in a WYSIWYG way.

The program supports bitmap, color, intelli and truetype fonts for your texts. You can edit your text objects by using the powerful integrated text editor or you can import texts from external files into Hollywood Designer. Clipboard text import and export is also supported of course. There are many text formatting possibilities like bold, italic, underlined, shadow and outline text which can be used. Of course the shadow and outline style can be configured to fit your needs. You can also specify the text alignment (left, right or centered).

You can use brushes and animations to create absolutely unique presentations. 24-bit transparency is supported for both types. You can also scale brushes to your desired size. Hollywood Designer can insert simple graphics forms into your presentations like rectangles, ellipses and lines. You can configure the shadow and border settings of these objects as well as some other attributes like round edges for rectangles and line thickness. You can choose colors from a pre-defined palette of popular colors or you can mix your own colors in the powerful color manager. Hollywood Designer is a complete 24-bit application that can display every single color of the 16.7 million possible colors.

Every object and every page can be displayed with a transition effect. You can choose from a massive palette of over 150 different transition effects which are partly very impressive. You can use cool fly-on effects for your objects like sine wave fly-on, curved fly-on or bounce fly-on. You can also remove your objects from the display with transition effects! Objects and pages can be used to assure the correct timing of your presentation which is precise in milliseconds.

Hollywood Designer can play sound samples and Protracker modules when a page or an object is displayed. You can modify the pitch value, volume, panning and loop settings of sound samples. Samples are loaded through datatypes so that you can use almost every format you want, 8 or 16-bit, mono or stereo. Hollywood Designer supports them all. Additionally full channel mixing is supported which means that you can play as many sound samples as you want at the same time. And also Protracker modules can be played at the same time as sound samples. Audio support is implemented fully retargetable through AHI.

You can also use the program to create interactive presentations, e.g. you can add menus to your presentation that query user input and react on it. This allows you to create even complete multimedia applications like front-ends or disk magazines. Every object can be used as a button that monitors several events like mouse over, left mouse or right mouse click. If an event occurs, you can define many actions to take, e.g. show/hide other objects, play sounds, start programs, switch page, quit presentation and more.

Advanced users who are familiar with the Hollywood script language can also embed their own Hollywood code in the presentation. Every object and every page has the option to execute custom Hollywood code to make the presentation even more unique. Hollywood code can be easily edited within Hollywood Designer and there are such helpful tools like syntax checking, online reference and import/export of code.

Your presentation can be displayed in a window on Workbench/Ambient or on a full screen for a very noble look of your work! You can configure every detail of the background frame of your presentation. You can use a background pattern, background color, gradient, an image or even everything together! Presentations can be configured to loop after they have reached the end and they can also be started in mute mode without sound output. Hollywood Designer is just the ideal tool for all your presentation needs on your Amiga or Pegasos.

Hollywood Designer is a modern application that requires a modern system to work best. A graphics board is strongly recommended as well as much memory. You should have at least 32 megabytes of free memory. For users with little memory, there is a low-end setting which will use less resources than the normal version does. Additionally you will require Hollywood 1.9. Hollywood Designer comes on a CD-ROM together with example presentations and an extensive documentation which explains every part of the program. The program is really easy to use. Most things are self-explaining and for the rest you have the documentation. Everyone can create stunning presentations now!

The program has direct support for CyberGraphX and Picasso96 as well as for AHI. There are versions for AmigaOS Classic and for MorphOS (PPC native). The program was successfully tested on AmigaOS Classic, MorphOS 1.4, WinUAE and Amithlon. An OS4 version is planned to be available as soon as the operating system is available. Hollywood Designer is written in a OS friendly way and should run on every Amiga compatible system. Get creative now with Hollywood Designer!


Features:

General:
  • State-of-the-art GUI allows you to design your presentations
  • Uses the popular page-based presentation concept
  • Create presentations with a few clicks
  • Easy to use layout part which allows you to drag objects around
  • Object, page and color manager are very useful tools to manage your project
  • Modern interface design with many colorful icons, toolbars and big images
  • Fully WYSIWYG compliant
  • Support for undo/redo and clipboard usage
  • Extensive online help interface for all dialogs
  • Hollywood Designer is completely localized
  • Many context menus for easy access to all popular functions
  • Modern project management with a data manager to organize your project files
  • Save your presentations as AmigaOS, WarpOS or MorphOS native executable!
  • Every presentation can also be saved as a Hollywood script
  • Fully keyboard controllable
  • Presentations can be shown in window and full screen mode
Pages & Objects:
  • Objects are brushes, animations, rectangles, ellipses, lines or texts
  • Each object can have a configurable shadow and border
  • Every object can play sounds and can execute timing options
  • All objects can be used as buttons to catch events
  • Objects can be displayed and removed with a transition effect
  • Every object has its own layer and can appear behind other objects
  • Objects can also execute your own custom Hollywood code (for advanced users)
  • Objects can also be hidden and grouped with the page background
  • Full 24-bit transparency support for brushes and animations
  • You can use color, bitmap, intelli and truetype fonts
  • Different styles are supported for every font type
  • Over 150 transition effects can be used for all objects and pages
  • Graphics can be scaled to any size
  • Pages can have a gradient, image, color or texture background
  • Pages can be exported as single pictures too
  • All graphics are loaded through datatypes
  • Page and object positions can easily be changed
  • Rectangles with round edges and thick lines can be used
  • Cool fly-on effects with sine wave, curves, bounces, etc.
Sound:
  • Objects and pages can play sound samples and Protracker modules
  • You can adjust the pitch, volume, panning and looping of samples
  • Audio playback fully retargetable through AHI
  • Sound samples are loaded through datatypes
  • Support for 8 and 16-bit samples
  • You can play virtually any number of samples at the same time
  • Sample size is not limited
Interactive presentations:
  • Every object can act as a button so you can create interactive presentations
  • Objects can catch mouse over, left mouse and right mouse click events
  • Many reactions on events are possible (e.g. show or hide other objects, play sounds, start programs, quit presentation, skip page...)
  • Custom reactions for events are also possible with Hollywood code (for advanced users)
  • Use Hollywood Designer to create your diskmags, front-ends or games!
Requirements:
  • Kickstart 3.0 or MorphOS 1.x
  • 68020 CPU
  • Hollywood 1.9
  • Graphics board strongly recommended
  • 32 megabyte memory recommended
  • 800x600 resolution recommended
More information, screenshots and order possibility are available on the Airsoft Softwair website. (snx)

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14.Apr.2004
MorphZone (Website)


 Boot pictures and screen backdrops for MorphOS
Cato Hagen provides several alternative boot pictures and screen backdrops at the Morphzone for Hdownload. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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14.Apr.2004
ANF


 Protest Against Software Patents in Brussels, Belgium
As Heise Online reports, there are various protests against software patents underway this week, such as a demonstration in Brussels with the motto No Software Patents - Power to the Parliament, a demonstration whose lead organizer is in favor of a cost-free information infrastructure (FFII). (snx) (Translation: dm)

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14.Apr.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)


 April 14th: Developer Feedback Day
The MorphZone declared today as the Developer Feedback Day.

Whoever uses a program today might take the time to write a small message to the according author and let him know that the product is used and maybe place some additional remarks. Most times the authors do not receive any feedback by the users - soemtimes not even when they update the program.

Please take the Developer Feedback Day as a raeson for a quick note to the developers, graphic artists or other activists whose work is used day by day - the authors have earned a honour and maybe also the users will benefit from such responses by generating a new motivation for the developers to care for their products. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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14.Apr.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)


 MAME: Version 0.80 for MorphOS available
The "Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator" (MAME) for MorphOS is available in version 0.80 now.

The archive (12.05 MB) from the Morphzone (title link) consists of the executable only and requires the file structure of MAME 0.72 or 0.69.

Changes:
  • Connection to version 0.80 of the common shared tree
  • Triple buffer in full screen mode
  • Reduced time delay while audio playback
  • small bugfixes
(snx) (Translation: ub)

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14.Apr.2004
David Scheibler (E-Mail)


 Sunbeam Business Solutions announces Pegasos prebuild systems
Neufahrn, April 13th, 2004 - Sunbeam Business Solutions, an IT consulting company for small and medium business are offering Pegasos prebuild systems since April the 8th.

The systems are available for 699 Euro (G3 system, incl. VAT) or 999 Euro (G4 system, incl VAT) and are orderable at the XAPO-Shop - powered by Sunbeam. They include the according Pegasos-II mainboard with G3/600MHz or G4/1GHz processor card, 256MB DDR-RAM, a Radeon 9200SE 128MB gfx card, a 120GB hard disk, a CDRW/DVD (G3 system) or CDRW/DVD+RW combo drive (G4 system),a µATX case and Logitech's Premium Desktop Optical.

With their knowledge in assembling integrated systems for private and commercial use Sunbeam Businesss Solutions offers customers the chance to benefit from their experience and to give the customers the freedom to focus on important things and not to mess around with assembling a computer system.

For the future Sunbeam Business Solutions plans to offer more systems based on the Pegasos.

Contact:

Sunbeam Business Solutions GbR
Moosmühlenweg 5
85375 Neufahrn

info@sunbeam- business.de
http://www.sunbeam- business.de
http://www.xapo.de (snx) (Translation: ub)

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13.Apr.2004
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)


 Music: Liquid Skies records #069
Liquid Skies has released the 69th music pack. This time it contains a track named "Killing Obsession" from the Polish musician Lcr. The cover was created by Kuadziw.

More information about the track:
  • Title: Killing Obsession
  • Artist: Lcr
  • Style: Drum'n'Base
  • Length: 3:27
  • Format: mp3

The zipped file (about 2.5 MB) is available for free download at the homepage. (cg) (Translation: gf)

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13.Apr.2004
MorphZone (Website)


 MorphOS: Update of commodity.library and parallel.device
Last week new versions of the commodity.library and parallel.device for MorphOS are uploaded to the FTP server for Pegasos customers for download.

Update (13-Apr-04, cr)
The new parallel.device is only for PegasosII systems. (snx) (Translation: gf)

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13.Apr.2004
Darius Brewka (E-Mail)


 AmiStart: Further development of the start menu
Darius Brewka, author of the Windows like Startmenu AmiStart, points to the further development of this program.

He asks AmiStart users with gfx boards to contact him via e-mail. AGA and screens under 15 bit are not longer supported by AmiStart.
AmiStart contains a QuickLaunch bar, Drag&Drop-Support and a adaptable graphical surface allowing transparency, rounded edges, background textures, shape-Layer and many more. (snx) (Translation: gf)

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13.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)


 MorphOS: LAME 3.96 (non-ixemul)
Christian Rosentreter has compiled the latest version 3.96 of the LGPL MP3 encoder LAME for MorphOS and provides it for download under the title link. (snx) (Translation: gf)

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12.Apr.2004
Jörg Renkert (ANF)


 AmiChameleon: Update
After beeing off-line for two weeks the AmiChameleon-Homepage is back! There are some major changes and additions.

Changes:
  • Support for Pixload, ReBooter and ArTKanoid
  • Documentation update (now available as HTML)
  • Online-Help added
  • Cache-Structure reworked
  • Online-Support for theme creation
  • Update of the Installation program
AmiChameleon V1.2 is now available here. (snx) (Translation: sk)

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12.Apr.2004
Jacek Piszczek/ #morphos


 MorphOS: TranspoClock 1.02
Jacek Piszczek released a new bugfixed version of TranspoClock for MorphOS. The archive is available at the title link. (cr) (Translation: sk)

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12.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)


 BabelDoc V2.8 (Update)
Lorence Lombardo released version 2.8 of BabelDoc. BabelDoc uses the Altavista translation service to translate texts. The program requires the reqtools.library, a TCP/IP-stack and the KingCon handler.

Update: (13.04.04, 21:00, cg)

Meanwhile version 2.8 is available. (snx) (Translation: sk)

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12.Apr.2004
Olaf K. (ANF)


 Amiga Arena: HollyRecord recompilation
Amiga Arena presents in co-operation with Telemar Rosenberger "HollyRecord". "HollyRecord" lets you easily record animations or presentations made with Hollywood.

HollyRecord has been recompiled with the new version 1.9 of Hollywood. Furthermore a WarpOS-version is now available. (snx) (Translation: sk)

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12.Apr.2004
Cloanto (ANF)


 Happy Easter from Cloanto / Amiga Forever 6.0
Cloanto wish a peaceful and happy Easter holiday and present the updated Amiga Forever website, which includes the new features of version 6.0 compared to its predecessor. Some work would still be needed on the website, though, and comments are always very welcome.

The new features of Amiga Forever 6.0 compared to version 5.3:
  • Preinstalled Amiga applications more than doubled (both in the 3.x and in the 1.3 environments)
  • Support for hard disks larger than 4 GB, mouse wheel, AHI, MUI, etc.
  • Built-in web browser (great for cross-browser web design testing)
  • CDs are now automounted in real time (includes CacheCDFS file system)
  • Built-in CD audio player and media player
  • New Amiga ROM and OS files (as in Amiga OS "3.5" and "3.9", but also historical items such as the Amiga 1000 boot ROM)
  • New reference configurations (for A500, A1200, CDTV, CD³², etc.)
  • More than 10 "First Demos" (Boing, Robo-City, Juggler, etc.) added to 1.3 environment
  • More realistic emulation (e.g. floppy disk drive sound, which makes an unexpected big difference in perception, but also required the addition of a good old "noclick" utility ;-)
  • New documentation (HTML shared by both Amiga and host OS)
  • Amiga Explorer 6.0 software
  • New launcher panel with one-click controls
  • New Software Manager for easy emulation news and updates
The CD Edition of Amiga Forever additionally includes the following new features:
  • Boot from CD option (featuring the KX Light GNU/Linux distribution)
  • New Gallery section (includes 1985 Byte Magazine reprint)
  • New high quality videos (includes Launch of Amiga New York event)
  • New preinstalled games (Mindwalker, Ports of Call, Deluxe Galaga, etc.)
(snx)

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10.Apr.2004
amigaworld.net (website)


 Installation instructions for AmigaOS 4 prerelease CD
The installation instructions that will be contained on the AmigaOS prerelease CD for the AmigaOne, was in advance released on amigaworld.net. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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10.Apr.2004
AmigaWorld.net (ANF)


 AmiGBG: event photos by members of the web portal Amigaworld.net
Under the title link you can find pictures from the AmiGBG in the Swedish Göteborg (most of them commented) which took place on April, 3rd. Also shown are photos of some members of the Amigaworld.net team showing their arrival and a city sight seeing tour after the event. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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10.Apr.2004
MCP (ANF)


 More pictures from the AmCluSt hardware meeting
Under the title link you can find some more snapshots from the hardware meeting of the Amiga Club Steinfurt (AmCluSt) in Dreierwalde from March, 2nd to March, 4th 2004.

'The MCP' wrote about it: I hope that we can repeat this once more. Unfortunately has the community shrinked very much, but we hope that one or the other had a little bit fun in being here. There had been only a little bit (thanks, Thomas) but aside that could the clones and emulators shine with speed and stability.

Maybe a meeting with all German Amiga clubs could be planned? Start something...

In this sense greetz,
The MCP (snx) (Translation: wk)

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10.Apr.2004
Organiser: Andreas Weyrauch (ANF)


 Petro Tyschtschenko promised to come to the AmigaOS4 event in Essen
Petro Tyschtschenko (former chief of Amiga International Inc. in Germany) has given his firm acceptance to participate in the AmigaOS4 event in Essen. Next to seeing the presentation of the current version of AmigaOS 4 (we reported) will the visitors have among other things the opportunity to get merchandising products signed by "Petro".

The event will take place on Saturday, May, 15th 2004 from 10:00 to 17:30 o'clock in the "Zukunft Zentrum Zollverein" (TripleZ) in Essen-Katernberg (Ruhrgebiet, Germany). (ps) (Translation: wk)

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10.Apr.2004
Olaf K. (ANF)


 WHDLoad V16.2 released
The hard disk installation program for old disk games WHDLoad is now available as version 16.2.

Download:
Users version (599 KB)
Developers version (1.3 MB)

Since April, 1st the support for the following games has been added/ improved:
  • Twylyte (Wicked)
  • Oriental Games (MicroStyle/MicroProse)
  • Tennis Cup 2 (Loriciel)
  • Space Racer (Loriciel)
  • Oriental Games (MicroStyle/MicroProse)
  • Black Shadow (CRL/Zen Room)
  • Shadow of the Beast 2 (Psygnosis)
(snx) (Translation: wk)

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10.Apr.2004
#aros


 Further pictures from the AmiGBG 2004
Under the title link have more pictures from this year's AmiGBG in Sweden been released. (cr) (Translation: wk)

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10.Apr.2004
The CAPS Team (ANF)


 CAPS project: Exhibiting at Classic Gaming Expo UK / Offline game database
The Classic Amiga Preservation Society, who archive old, copy-protected Amiga games including their copy-protection, have converted another 50 games into the CAPS format.

A list of the new games is available from the CAPS homepage. In the meantime 1599 games have been archived.

Furthermore there is now an XML-based offline version of the games database as a ZIP archive (95 KB) available, which does not yet include the latest 50 entries, though. To display it, an XSL-capable browser is required.

At the Classic Gaming Expo UK on July 24th/25th in Croydon, South London, also the CAPS will be an exhibitor. (snx)

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09.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)


 Emulator-GUI: Nostalgia 2.2
"Nostalgia" is a graphical user-interface for 13 several emulators. The AmigaOS 3-application works under MorphOS without problems, too. The new version supports now also the emulators "Snes9x" (MorphOS) and "TGEmu" (MorphOS).

Direct Download: Nostalgia.lha (340 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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09.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)


 Petro Tyschtschenko visits Amiga-Party in Holland
The organizer of the Amiga-Party in Maarssen (April 17th, Holland) announces that the former Amiga chairman named Petro Tyschtschenko will also visit the event. Petro will arrive only at noon because he celebrates his birthday one day before. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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08.Apr.2004
Christian Rosentreter (E-Mail)


 Translation Tool: New Version of Amifish
Amifish is a little help program that assists you in translating text through the use of Babelfish.

Because a few routines were changed at Babelfish there is again a new version of Amifish. Besides the program you need: amarquee.library V54, MUI 3.8, betterstring.mcc, nlist.mcc and busy.mcc.

Direct download: amifish.lha (44 KB) (cg) (Translation: dm)

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08.Apr.2004
Ingo Schmitz (ANF)


 Mailing List for Amiga Users in Vicinity of Osnabrück
Whoever wants to stay current on activities of Amiga users in the vicinity of Osnabrück (Rheine, Bielefeld, Germany) may click on the title link to subscribe to a mailing list.

The participants meet once a month to dine, and also schedule hardware get-togethers irregularly as well as coordinating car pools to these meals and get-togethers. (cg) (Translation: dm)

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08.Apr.2004
Steffen Gutmann (ANF)


 MUIbase v1.8 Released
MUIbase-Version 1.8 is available immediately from http://www.muibase.de and it will also be on Aminet shortly.

New features in MUIbase since version 1.7 are:
  • A new option in the "New Field/Field Modify" window allows changes in the field to be ignored so they are no longer counted as a change in the project.
  • New option to sort alphabetically by trigger functions.
  • New option, to sort tables and fields according to the sequence in the display list.
  • The numbering of the commands GETVIRTUALLISTACTIVE and SETVIRTUALLISTACTIVE have been changed to begin with 1, as opposed to 0. This is more consistent with the numbering of data statements and display lists, in which index 0 relates at the top of the list. Attention: this change functions under circumstantial incompatibilities with existing projects.
  • Correction of false index lists in the user handbook.
  • A few bug fixes.
(nba) (Translation: dm)

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08.Apr.2004
Beta2-ML


 ProTracker II: Projected Completion Date Shifted
The completion of the soundtracker program ProTracker II, which had been announced for March (asamiga-news.de reported), has been delayed to December 2004 due to the higher priority of other of the author's projects. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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07.Apr.2004



 Instant Messaging: Jabberwocky 1.5 Preview
Tom Parker and Matthias Münch have released the "preview"-version 1.5 of the instant messenger 'JabberWocky' for Amiga computers. Jabber is an open XML protocol for a direct message exchange.

A connect with other instant messengers like AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo is possible by using gateways.

The new version now allows the administration of several accounts. The change between the accounts is controlled via an ARexx script which is available on the website of Jabberwocky.

Download: Jabberwocky040407.lha (71 KB) (cg) (Translation: nba)

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07.Apr.2004
ANN (website)


 Emulators: Published source codes of TrueReality and SOPE
Mathias 'AmiDog' Roslund released the source codes for his AmigaPPC-ports of the emulators TrueReality and SOPE. TrueReality is an emulator for the Nintendo 64, SOPE emulates the Sony Playstation. Both applications are based on MiniGL and require a 3D-graphics-card to be executed. (snx) (Translation: nba)

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07.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)


 Event: OS4-presentation at QAUG (New York)
The US-american user group QAUG (Queens Amiga User Group) continues its presentation of the current development status of AmigaOS 4 during its meeting on April 10th, 2004, in Ridgewood, New York.

In addition to the OS4-show the current Debian-version in combination with KDE 3.2 and Mac OS 9.2 based on MacOnLinux will be presented. Possible also Mac OS X and the new UAE-version will be shown. More information can be found on the website of QAUG. (snx) (Translation: nba)

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07.Apr.2004
Kultpower.de (ANF)


 Kultpower.de: News review-scans and advanced forum
Kultpower.de, the fanpage about kult-magazines such as Powerplay, ASM and Amiga Joker, today released some more review-scans and opened an advanced discussion board for all classic-game-freaks.

News PowerPlay-reviews from Powerplay 10/92: B-17 Flying Fortress (MS-DOS), B.A.T. 2 (MS-DOS), Carl Lewis Challenge (MS-DOS), Darklands (MS-DOS), Dinosaurs (Super NES), Gleylancer (Mega Drive), Hook (Super NES), Hook (MS-DOS), Lemmings (Mega Drive), Ragnarök (MS-DOS), RoboSport (MS-DOS), Siege (MS-DOS), Switchblade 2 (Lynx), World Class Soccer (Lynx).

The Kultpower and TheLegacy forum announces a new partnership: STCArchiv.de, which archives articles of various classical Atari-magazines, is the third operator of this discussion board about classic games. (nba) (Translation: nba)

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05.Apr.2004
Thilo Köhler (ANF)


 AsteroidsTR: Update (Version 0.8)
Due to the encouriging comments by the public Thilo Köhler released another update for AsteroidsTR

Changes:
  • Keyboard-Bugfix (MorphOS)
  • In-Game and highscore music
  • Global Internet-Highscore-Register
  • "Burning" asteroids from Wave 12

Download: http://www.hd-rec.de/Archive/AsteroidsTR08.lha
Music: http://www.hd-rec.de/Archive/AsteroidsAhead.mp3 (snx) (Translation: sk)

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05.Apr.2004
MorphOS-News.de (website)


 bplan: New firmware for the Pegasos II available
bplan GmbH has released a flash update for the Pegasos II firmware. Please read the installation instructions carefully.

Changes:
  • Network boot 10/100 (setenv client-ip/setenv server-ip)
  • 256MB memory limitation under Linux removed
  • RAM Timing changes for better support of different memory modules
  • additional RTAS functions
(snx)

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05.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)


 MorphOS: RunDOS V1.1 released
Version 1.1 of RunDOS is now available

Download: Version 1.1 (33 KB) (snx) (Translation: sk)

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05.Apr.2004
Murakami (ANF)


 Magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR 26 released
aMiGa=PoWeR is a magazine issued by the French association AFLE. Since its creation in 1998 the aMiGa=PoWeR became one of the leading French Amiga publications.

Among other reports you can find the following topics in the current issue number 26:
  • KMOS
  • AmigaOS4
  • Destinea Wars
  • Barkanoid 2
  • GoldED Studio AIX SP16
  • Hollywood Designer
  • Jamiga v0.0.2
  • PairsNG v2.4
  • Screenplay
(snx)

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05.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)


 Benchmark: AmigaOne vs. Pegasos
Findings of a benchmark between AmigaOne and Pegasos can be found at the title link. Rage was used for this benchmark wich is available for AmigaOS4 as well as for MorphOS.
(snx) (Translation: sk)

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04.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)


 Download manager: Wallget 0.7.1
"Wallget" is a download manager based on WGet, versions for MorphOS and AmigaOS 3 are available.

The 0.7.1 update fixes a bug that could crash the program when parsing the preferences file. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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04.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)


 MorphOS: snes9xstarter 2.0 released
snes9xstarter is an Open Source GUI (screenshot) for the MorphOS port of SNES9x by Fab. Version 2.0 was written from scratch and the main features are:
  • uses Magic User Interface
  • ROM image QuickSelector
  • optimal settings are preconfigured
  • supports all important SNES9x features / settings, also supports 'forwarding' of advanced SNES9x commandline settings, so practically all SNES9x features are supported
  • it's small: just 20,000 bytes
  • comes already with a nice PNG icon
  • has an AmigaGuide documentation
(cg)

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03.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)


 Disk mag: Grapevine revived
The disk mag "Grapevine" of the scene group LSD, that had been closed in 1995, celebrates a comeback. Under the title link you can read the just released issue and download all old issues from 1991-1995. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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03.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)


 MorphOS: OpenPictureSpace v2.1 released
"OpenPictureSpace" (homepage of the Linux version) shows all pictures of a directory as thumbnails. A double click on a thumbnail shows the image in its original size.

Version 2.1 comes with the following enhancements:
  • a click with the right mouse button shows information about the current picture
  • the keys 'x' and 'y' double the height respectively the width of the shown picture
  • lift displayed on right of the screen, but only in read-only for now
(cg) (Translation: wk)

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03.Apr.2004
Filip Dab-Mirowski (E-Mail)


 Prometheus: Beta testers needed for new drivers
In a message to the Prometheus mailing list, Filip Dab-Mirowski asks people interested in testing new drivers to contact him.

An upgraded Prometheus board with firmware revision 50/27 would be necessary. Preferably, the testers should provide the appropriate PCI cards (FM801, USB and RTL8139) themselves. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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03.Apr.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)


 Programming language: AmigaPython 2.3.3 alpha 2
Tim Ocock has released another alpha build of his version 2.3.3 update of Irmen de Jong's AmigaPython. New in this version:
  • XML (pyexpat) support working
  • bzip2 and zlib (zip) support
  • socket module for Internet access works
  • uses ieee math libraries instead of FPU only ones
  • more complete Amiga and Amigapath modules, fixing st_size bug amongst others
(cg) (Translation: cg)

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03.Apr.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)


 Text editor: TurboText 2.0 released as Freeware
Martin Taillefer permitted the distribution of his text editor "Turbo-Text 2.0" as Freeware. The software can be downloaded from Tim Ocock's homepage for now, it will be available on Aminet soon.

Please note that "Amiga Forever" also contains a version of TurboText 2.0 which has been modified in several ways to fix various issues. This version has not been released as Freeware, it is still a commercial product. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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03.Apr.2004



 Black Troll Technology: webshop for AROS complete systems opened
Black Troll Technology have opened their webshop. Next to other products like an AROS shirt they particularly offer the Black Troll Edge LE Basic, a x86 complete system with AROS beginning with a price of 325 US-Dollars.

A part of the incoming through the selling of these systems goes to TeamAROS to speed up the further development of the "Amiga Research Operating System". (snx) (Translation: wk)

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03.Apr.2004
Amclust (ANF)


 Event: First report about the AmCluSt hardware meeting (update)
From the Amiga-Club Steinfurt (AmCluSt) comes a first report about its event that's just happening:

Since yesterday takes in Dreierwalde (near Rheine/Westfalen/Germany) the AmCluSt hardware meeting place. Already on the first day there has been great interest and happenings regarding everything that has to do with the AmigaOS.

Harald Frank presents Amithlon on his laptop and showed because of the great interest already yesterday the possibility of the multimonitoring. Besides that he had brought many hardware with him to upgrade existing Amithlon systems. Among other things he offers many G-Force4 cards priced 15+ Euros.

Axel Knabe demonstrates current software for MorphOS to interested visitors. He also offers useful hardware, not only for the Pegasos.

Guido Mersmann shows the brandnew version 1.00 of the USB driver ArakAttack and the first beta of the IRTrans driver as well as various tools for it. Known programs like BoulderDäsh, MMKeyboard, AmithlonTV are shown there, too.

Everybody who wants to have a look himself/herself has the opportunity to do so until Sunday evening.

Update: (03.04.04, 20:14, cg)

Harald Frank has gathered and commented some pictures of the event. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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03.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)


 OpenOffice 1.1.1 for Linux-PPC released
OpenOffice is now available in the new version 1.1.1 for PowerPC-Linux, too. Required are the standard packages like glibc 2.3.1, XFree86 4.0, etc. Further information can be found under the title link. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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03.Apr.2004
Wayne Hunt (email)


 Amiga.org: Domain name sale by Wayne Hunt an April-fool trick
As a new advertising banner on Amiga.org now reveals is the alleged sale of the domain from May, 1st to a Mexican Lesbian organization called Corazón de Amiga an April-fool trick. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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03.Apr.2004
ANN (website)


 MorphOS: Port of AROS demos (including screensaver and HTML Tidy)
Ali Akcaagac has compiled AROS demos for MorphOS and made these available for download (1.2 MB) including source codes and makefiles.

There's also the AROS screensaver as well as a new version of the program HTML Tidy included that verifies HTML files for syntax errors, corrects these automatically if wanted and formats the source code for printing.

The author plans to update this archive from time to time. He's aware of the fact that some of the components have already been ported before. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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03.Apr.2004
Amigaworld.net (website)


 Event: Change of schedule for the live broadcasting from AmigGBG
The schedule for the live broadcasting by AmigaWorld Radio from the Swedish AmiGBG show today with music, interviews and round-ups has been changed.

The broadcasting takes place from 9:50 PM to 16:00 PM UK Time (GMT+1), i.e. 10:50 CEST (New York starts 4:50 AM, Sydney starts 19:50 PM).

Opening speech starts 11:00 UK Time (GMT+1) / 12:00 CEST, the first presentation starts a short while later. The schedule for the presentations is as follows:

1st Universal Space
2nd AROS
3rd Cloanto
4th Individual Computers
5th IBM
6th Eyetech
7th Competition Winners
8th Hyperion
9th Individual Computers (once again)

Additionally, Amigaworld Radio will be hosting Q&A sessions with leading Amiga people, who will be answering questions submitted via their IRC channel, #Amigaworld.

AmigaWorld Radio has the capacity for 300 listeners using two servers:
Server 1: http://server1.amigaworld.net:8000/listen.pls
Server 2: http://server2.amigaworld.net:8000/listen.pls (snx)

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03.Apr.2004



 MorphOS: TGEmu 1.3 released
"TGEmu" emulates the classic NEC games console "TurboGrafx16" (aka "PC Engine"). Many commercial titles are running fast enough and with sound suppport.

The update to version 1.3 includes the following improvements:
  • Added command line interface and Nostalgia v2.2 support
  • Fixed bottom clipping rectangle to match the viewport size
  • Added saving screenshot as a jpeg picture feature
  • Fixed "romname" not being freed on exit
  • Added close gadget to play window
  • Mouse pointer is hidden in fullscreen mode now
  • Reduced sound skipping when resizing or saving screenshot
Download: tgemu.lha (433 KB) (nba) (Translation: wk)

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03.Apr.2004
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)


 Amiga User List: GAUHPIL Database now online
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a list created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll containing websites of Amiga users sorted by continents and countries. Right now, the GAUHPIL is migrating to a MySQL based database solution.

The GAUHPIL database is now publicly accessible, although there is still room for improvement and not all pages have been altered to the new layout scheme yet. On the other hand, the database itself runs stable and the remaining static HTML pages will be adapted one after another. (nba)

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03.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)


 SMSPlus ported to MorphOS
Emerald Imaging, developer of the adventure "Aqua", has ported "SMSPlus", an emulator for the Sega MasterSystem / Sega GameGear, to MorphOS. The emulator offers a high grade of compatibility and requires MUI as graphical users interface. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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02.Apr.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)


 AmigaOne: UDMA-IDE device for AmigaOS 4
A screenshot on amigaworld.net demonstrates "A1IDE.device" using UDMA100 running 3 "all night" md5sum scripts on a 50 MB file without any data corruption. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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02.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)


 AmigaOS 4 Theme for Linux published
For the window-manager "IceWM" a theme has been published which tries to perform the look of AmigaOS 4. Official screenshots have been the pattern and the used fonts have been copied, too. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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02.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)


 IBM founded PowerPC Community
IBM tries to create a community around the POWER processor architecture. Everybody gets a survey over the technical and economical possibilities of the technology and also the right to take influence on the further development.

For this use IBM provides a lot of information, e.g. the "Power Architecture Pack" which is used to develop components which are based on the POWER-technology with the help of a graphical user interface. Get further information under the title link. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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02.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)


 Heise: Gateway closes branches
The former Amiga main company Gataway closes 188 branches in order to concentrate on the direct distribution via telephone and Internet. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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02.Apr.2004
Robin (ANF)


 MUIrdf - Viewer for RSS/RDF-News
Many news-sites offer its news in the form of so called RSS/RDF-Feeds (e.g. amiga-news.de). "MUIrdf" is a small ARexx script with which you can take the headlines of those news sources to the desktop.

"MUIrdf" loads these ones (with the help of wget), shows it as HTML-sites and allows you to open the news belonging to the headlines in the browser (with OpenURL).

Requirements:
  • MUI 3.8
  • ARexx
  • rxMUI
  • RMH Libary
  • MUI Custom Class: NList, HTMLview, BWin
  • wget
  • OpenURL
  • PIPE:

If the author uses the program wget 1.9.1 under WinUAE it causes a total break down. Because of this the next version will use the RxSocket.library if it is possible. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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02.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)


 Reminder: Amiga Party in the Netherlands on April 17th
At ANN Ron van Schaik reminds again of the upcoming Amiga Party at the Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21, in Maarssen, Netherlands, from 10:00 till 16:00 on Saturday, April 17th (amiga-news.de reported).

He writes: "We're expecting a lot Amiga freaks from all over Europe and there will be a few nice demonstrations. Computer City will be present with a lot of Amiga stuff for sale. Also you can discuss, exchange, buy and sell your Amiga stuff with a lot of other present Amigans.

Also there will be a few Pegasos computers and we will show you the latest version of MorphOS. For the Amiga 500 game freaks we will have hundreds of games available to show and play. Important to know is that all other Commodore freaks and computers are also welcome! When we organize something special it's always extra and not instead of our normal shows! Look at http://commodore-gg.hobby.nl for the latest information!" (snx)

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02.Apr.2004
MorphZone (website)


 MorphOS: Update of the C64 emulator Frodo
The MorphOS port of the C64 emulator Frodo has been enhanced.

New features of the current version (571 KB):
  • MUI GUI
  • Colour preferences
  • Joystick support
  • Display scaling
From now on you can use your Catweasel or internal joystick controller with Frodo and play games by joystick. 2nd fire button is supported which is mapped to SPACE on C64 keyboard.

For display scaling MUI GUI can take an advantage of overlay and F12 toggles between full sized and normal sized window. (snx)

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02.Apr.2004
Ventzislav Tzvetkov (ANF)


 Game: BoxWorld Gold version
Ventzislav Tzvetkov has released the Gold version of BoxWorld, a Sokoban clone where you have to replace boxes in order to advance to the next level (screenshot).

New in version 1.1:
  • More music.
  • Bigger worlds.
  • Over 300 more levels.
  • Double sized graphics.
  • New type of terrain - rough.
  • Two new boxtypes - IceBox and InertBox.
  • Miscellaneous bugfixes and optimizations.
(snx)

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02.Apr.2004
Aminet (Website)


 Aminet Uploads until 01.04.2004
Here are the newest Aminet-uploads since our last message: 
PPaint71_Port.lha    biz/cloan    9K+Portuguese locale Catalog for Personal P
SN-EuroArchiv.lha    biz/dbase  711K+V1.3 Euro-Coin-DataBase (Germany only)
microgolded.lha      biz/demo   528K+Simple but powerful editor (30-day trial
DOpus5661_Port.lha   biz/dopus   32K+Portuguese Catalogs and buttons for Dire
ExecuteInShell.lha   biz/dopus   19K+(1.2) ExecuteInShell script for Dopus Ma
OpusMPEGAPort.lha    biz/dopus    4K+Portuguese locale Catalog for OpusMPEGA 
SMRMag2Theme.lha     biz/dopus  795K+Collection of data for Magellan II
lohnsteuer.lha       biz/misc   153K+Calculate the taxes and social insurance
YAM135_Port.lha      comm/mail    9K+Portuguese locale Catalog for YAM v1.3.5
DVBzap.lha           comm/misc   28K+Remote control for Nokia D-Box. 68k+MOS
dhcp_amitcp.lha      comm/tcp   147K+DHCP client working in Genesis
Miami_Port.lha       comm/tcp    35K+Portuguese locale Catalogs for Miami v3.
SambaMountList.lha   comm/tcp   104K+SambaMountList Generator
AWeb_Port.lha        comm/www    13K+Portuguese locale Catalogs for AWeb v3.4
IBrowse_Port.lha     comm/www    18K+Portuguese locale Catalogs for IBrowse v
Karate099.lha        demo/aga   993K+Nowadays Demomaker using scripts. (now 3
clockita.lha         dev/basic   80K+Italian clock+alarm+source code (bugfix)
IFFtoC.lha           dev/c       64K+Converts IFF-pics to C-code (MorphOS)
KronosC.lha          dev/c       72K+C compiler for M68020+ under the CLI 
AObjView.lha         dev/cross   26K+Displays the Hunk structure of Amiga Obj
as80.lha             dev/cross   23K+Assembler for the Intel 8080 processor.
tcsh-6.12.00-b.lha   dev/gg     151K+Tcsh shell (executable only)
tcsh-6.12.00-s.lha   dev/gg     1.9M+Tcsh shell (full source)
amuidiff.lha         dev/misc   148K+Displays differences of two text files i
TransCat_Port.lha    dev/misc     3K+Portuguese locale Catalog for TransCat v
Blobzsrc1.1.lha      dev/src     60K+Blitz 2.1 source code to Blobz (update)
BackMan.lha          disk/bakup 320K+The backup system V2.0 (OS3+ MUI3.8+ XPK
ACDPlay16_Port.lha   disk/cdrom   4K+Portuguese locale Catalog for ACDPlay v1
GPlayer_Port.lha     disk/cdrom   3K+Portuguese locale Catalog for GroovyPlay
MUICD_Port.lha       disk/cdrom   6K+Portuguese Catalogs for MUI CD Player v1
PFS3ud.lha           disk/misc  136K+PFS3 undelete 
Z100_Port.lha        disk/misc    4K+Portuguese locale Catalog for Z100 v1.5
AmigaChannel.lha     docs/anno    3K+Real Amiga-Mania World IRC Channel in Ga
AmigaWorld.lha       docs/anno    3K+Real Amiga-Mania World IRC Channel in Ga
Spanishcoins.lha     docs/hyper  21K+History of the Spanish coins
ThePolice.lha        docs/hyper  52K+The Police: albums, lyrix, singles +more
Boing-Attack.lha     docs/misc   82K+Boing Attack's index
Saga.lha             game/board 330K+Saga 1.4: Conversion of TSR boardgame
Blobz1.1.lha         game/misc  170K+Update to 50-level overhead-viewed game
SweetKiSS.lha        game/misc   37K+KiSS aka Kisekae viewer (MUI, CGX/P96)
TotalChaosAGA.lha    game/misc   34M+640x512 256 colors 50fps Magic & Monster
WormWars.lha         game/misc  539K+Worm Wars 7.72b: Advanced snake game
MazezaM.lha          game/think 309K+Puzzle game, Sokoban alike (DeLuxe versi
Pizza-src.lha        gfx/3dobj    4K+'Source' files for pix/imagi/Pizza.jpg
DIYrekoTutor.lha     gfx/ifx     22K+Exaple files for DIYreko
Reko2As.lha          gfx/ifx      3K+Convert Reko cardsets to AS-.....
Collector_Port.lha   gfx/misc    15K+Portuguese locale Catalog for Collector 
APDF_Port.lha        gfx/show     5K+Portuguese locale Catalog for APDF v2.2+
Frogger_RU.lha       gfx/show    11K+Frogger russian documentation v2.07
MooVId_RU.lha        gfx/show    27K+MooVId russian documentation v1.6
Visage_Port.lha      gfx/show     3K+Portuguese locale Catalog for Visage v39
3c589.lha            hard/drivr  54K+Driver for 3Com PCMCIA network cards
ArakAttack.lha       hard/drivr 282K+V0.99 USB Driver for Amithlon & OpenPCI
mdisk363.lha         hard/drivr  16K+Catweasel MK3 PCI driver using openpci.l
Frodo_Port.lha       misc/emu     3K+Portuguese locale Catalog for Frodo v2.4
MagiC64_Port.lha     misc/emu     5K+Portuguese locale Catalog for MagiC64 v1
unix2atr.lha         misc/emu    23K+Extract files and create a disk image
imdbDiff040305.lha   misc/imdb  2.5M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
imdbDiff040312.lha   misc/imdb  3.7M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
imdbDiff040319.lha   misc/imdb  2.4M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
AmySequencer.lha     mus/edit   231K+MIDI sequencer for the AMIGA
GMP-G.lha            mus/midi   128K+GUI for GMPlay V1.3(a)
Pegase_Port.lha      mus/misc     3K+Portuguese locale Catalog for Pegase v1.
AMPlifier_Port.lha   mus/play     3K+Portuguese locale Catalog for AMPlifier 
MPEGA35.lha          mus/play    39K+MPEG I,II & III audio decoder V3.5 (6802
SongPlayer_Por.lha   mus/play     5K+Portuguese locale Catalog for SongPlayer
GEDIcons.lha         pix/gicon   10K+Glow icons Toolbar for GoldEd Studio6
Icons.lha            pix/gicon  527K+OS3.9 icons
ZIP100-250_GI.lha    pix/gicon  145K+By Raul Silva, the Best GlowIcons for Io
ofour.lha            pix/icon   340K+OS 4 styled skin for Morph OS
ZIP100-250_NI.lha    pix/icon   173K+By Raul Silva, the Best NewIcons for Iom
mangeur-de-cig.jpg   pix/illu    45K+Hand drawing picture of a mangeur de cig
wNpSnaps2.lha        pix/illu   551K+Snapshots of watchNplay (2nd set)
Pizza.jpg            pix/imagi    7K+Pizza on a table. Have a slice!
SkolmanMorphOS.lha   pix/wb      64K+Amiga(Morph)OS Workbench snAp AGA Bliz60
BareED.lha           text/edit  307K+Text editor supporting proportional font
Wordworth_Port.lha   text/edit   13K+Portuguese locale Catalogs for Wordworth
WW4SE_7fin.lha       text/edit   19K+Wordworth 4SE & 7 Finnish catalogs
Sherman_Port.lha     util/blank   4K+Portuguese locale Catalog for Sherman Bl
ToolsDaemonPor.lha   util/boot    4K+Portuguese locale Catalog for ToolsDaemo
MCP132_Port.lha      util/cdity   9K+Portuguese Catalog for MCP v1.32 Beta 12
CrossDOS.lha         util/conv    1K+Convert data with translation filter
HotFavBook.lha       util/conv   76K+Convert Windows favorites to IBrowse-hot
BoardsLib_Port.lha   util/libs    2K+Portuguese locale Catalog for Boards.Lib
libidn.lha           util/libs   36K+Idn.library converts ISO-8859-1 <-> ACE 
ttengine.lha         util/libs  532K+TrueType text rendering engine (v 6.5)
froggui.lha          util/misc  498K+GUI for FroggerNG
LC2_Amithlon.lha     util/misc   82K+Aussie Lotto checker/database, Amithlon 
ReportPlus.lha       util/misc  307K+Report+ 5.76a: Multipurpose utility
StartBar-ITA.lha     util/misc   89K+Italian version of StartBar
Pointers.lha         util/mouse  11K+Pointer prefs for os3.1-3.9
FileReq.lha          util/shell  13K+OS3.5/3.9 Open Filerequester and launch 
StartupScripts.lha   util/shell  11K+OS3.5/3.9 Boot log
MrIcon_Port.lha      util/wb      2K+Portuguese locale Catalog for MrIcon v1.
Picticon_Port.lha    util/wb      3K+Portuguese locale Catalog for Picticon v
SGrab18_Port.lha     util/wb      3K+Portuguese locale Catalog for SGrab v1.8
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02.Apr.2004
WHDLoad (Website)


 WHDLoad: New packets until April 1st, 2004
With WHDLoad you can install games on your hard drive which had been originally written for use only with disks. The following packets have been added or improved since our last message:
  • 27.03.04 improved: Utopia (Gremlin)
  • 27.03.04 new: Under Pressure (Electronic Zoo)
  • 27.03.04 improved: Batman the Caped Crusader (Ocean)
  • 27.03.04 updated: Advanced Tactical Fighter II (Digital Integration)
  • 26.03.04 new: Badlands Pete (ARC)
  • 26.03.04 improved: Impossible Mission 2 (Epyx)
  • 25.03.04 new: Enemy - Tempest Of Violence (Anachronia)
  • 23.03.04 improved: Universe (Core Design)
  • 23.03.04 fixed: Thomas the Tank Engine Pinball (Spidersoft)
  • 23.03.04 updated: Adrenalynn (Exponentia)
  • 22.03.04 updated: Joe & Mac (Caveman Ninja) (Data East)
  • 22.03.04 improved: Shadow of the Beast 2 (Psygnosis)
  • 21.03.04 updated: Godfather (U.S.Gold)
  • 18.03.04 improved: Peter Beardsley's International Football (Teque/Grandslam)
  • 18.03.04 updated: 3D Galax (Gremlin)
  • 18.03.04 improved: B.A.T. (UBI-Soft)
  • 16.03.04 new: Terminator (Status OK)
  • 16.03.04 new: No Brain No Pain (Paradise)
  • 15.03.04 improved: Space MAX (Starbyte)
  • 15.03.04 new: Logo (Starbyte)
  • 15.03.04 fixed: King's Quest 2 (Sierra)
  • 15.03.04 improved: Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade (Lucasfilm Games)
  • 15.03.04 updated: Genesia (Microids)
  • 15.03.04 updated: F/A-18 Interceptor (Intellisoft/Electronic Arts)
  • 13.03.04 new: Theme Park Mystery (Imageworks/Konami)
  • 13.03.04 new: Status Quo (Mad Elks)
  • 13.03.04 new: The Best Of Raw vol.1 (Katharsis)
  • 13.03.04 new: Techno Trance (Bastards)
  • 11.03.04 new: 3D Galax (Gremlin)
  • 10.03.04 new: Space MAX (Starbyte)
  • 09.03.04 new: Thomas the Tank Engine Pinball (Spidersoft)
  • 09.03.04 improved: Shadow of the Beast 2 (Psygnosis)
  • 08.03.04 improved: CJ's Elephant Antics (Code Masters)
  • 08.03.04 new: Australo Piticus Mechanicus (Hack+Slay Team)
  • 08.03.04 improved: Vroom Multiplayer (Lankhor)
  • 08.03.04 improved: Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade (Lucasfilm Games)
  • 08.03.04 improved: Eliminator (Hewson)
  • 05.03.04 improved: Wizball (Ocean)
  • 05.03.04 new: Overlord (Rowan) (Rowan/Virgin)
  • 05.03.04 improved: Falcon (Spectrum HoloByte)
  • 03.03.04 new: Sliders (Microids/Palace)
  • 03.03.04 improved: Colorado (Silmarils)
  • 02.03.04 improved: Transarctica (Silmarils)
  • 29.02.04 new: Jetsons (PAL Developments/Hi-Tec)
  • 29.02.04 updated: Prospector in the Mazes of Xor (Hidden Treasures/Logotron)
  • 29.02.04 new: The Raiders (Silmarils)
  • 29.02.04 new: Super OsWALD (SilverRock)
  • 29.02.04 new: Manhattan Dealers (Silmarils)
  • 28.02.04 improved: Storm Master (Silmarils)
  • 28.02.04 improved: Les Manley - Search For The King (Accolade)
  • 28.02.04 fixed: Leisure Suit Larry 5 (Sierra)
  • 27.02.04 new: Hugo - På Nye Eventyr 2 (SilverRock)
  • 27.02.04 new: Hugo - På Nye Eventyr (SilverRock)
  • 27.02.04 improved: Storm Master (Silmarils)
  • 27.02.04 improved: Crystals of Arborea (Silmarils)
(nba) (Translation: dr)

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01.Apr.2004
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


 Issue 121 of the Online Magazine NoCover Appears
No fooling, on 1st April the beloved online magazine NoCover is punctual once again, with the release of issue 121, and has just been sent via email to all subscribers as well as posted on our homepage http://www.nc-mag.de and at http://www.apc-tcp.de. From here on out the magazine is available on Aminet and on Amiga Future CDROMs.

Have fun with the new NoCover, says
Wolf Zimmer
Cord Hagen
Andreas Magerl (snx) (Translation: dm)

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01.Apr.2004
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


 Multi-ADC (Analog Digital Changer) for Amiga, Pegasos and Amithlon
Here is an electronic diagram and a small test program for my six channel multi analog digital changer (download, 87 KB).

Characteristics of the ADC chip:
  • Six measuring channels
  • Programmable for unipolar (from 0V to +5V) and bipolar (-5V to +5V) measurements per channel
  • Programmable reversal of the measurement polarity (only with bipolar)
  • 12 bits resolution per channel
  • programmable stand-by mode of the ADC
The following must be installed:
  • rexxtricks
  • tritonrexx
  • triton.library
  • rexxserdev
The following ENV variables should be inserted in the "ENVARC:" designation:
  • Analog-device = serial device
  • Analog-unit = serial unit
  • Analog-Volt = maximal voltage reachable at the measurement entrances (normally "5")
Important:
The hardware (MultiADC) is fixed to a data rate of 15000 baud. If this data rate is changed on the computer there won't be any correct transfer of information.

The passive building elements (condensers and resistors) must be built exactly in accordance with the instructions. Deviating values in Ohms or Farad lead to an incorrect function of the MultiADCs.

All building elements are in CMOS technology. So one must wear an anti-static armband so as not to disturb the connection pins. Through this one is able to make it reliable.

With one's own, self-provided program one must pay attention to the programming of the chip LTC1293, since this deviates with the available hardware something from the data in the PDF document from this chip.

Example:
For a logical 1 at the data entrance of the LTC1293 chip one programs in ARexx "call serwrite(ser,'11111111'B,1)" and for a logical 0 it would be "call serwrite(ser,'00000000'B,1)." (snx) (Translation: dm)

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01.Apr.2004
Brad Webb (E-Mail)


 Amiga Update Newsletter from Brad Webb #040331
Under the tite link you'll find the complete newsletter Amiga Update for March, 2004. In this English language newsletter Brad Webb does a monthly summary of all important Amiga news.

Topics in this edition:
  • AmigaWorld.net interviews Gary Hare
  • AmigaOS 4 Event in Germany
  • Amiwest 2004 is coming
  • DawnVideoPoker latest rev
  • Ghostprint v8.13 now available
(nba) (Translation: dm)

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01.Apr.2004
Heise Newsticker


 Cost-Free DSL Volume Rate at GMX
Sounds like an April Fools joke but it's not: the Internet provider GMX just started offering a cost-free DSL rate with 1000 megabytes, volume-inclusive. The offer, which may also be used at your choice against an accounting of... [rest of article not translated, has limited utility to non-Germans]. (cs) (Translation: dm)

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01.Apr.2004
Sebastian Eichholz (ANF)


 Heise April Fools: MP3 with MOD Tracker Modification
In their first report of the day Heise.de offers Further MP3 Efficiency Leap. The article describes how, comparably to the idea that was earlier used in the "Tracker-Zeit," similar pattern inside an MP3 song may be re-used.

Quote (translated): "The idea for dMP3 is a quasi-reminiscence of the 16 Bit Era: because without good software instruments MIDI simply only produces sad beeps, the Tracker/MOD scene, which reached its high points in the 16 Bit Era, has reinvented itself."

Update: (1st April, 2004, 5:39 pm, snx)
Original title of the report recreated, after the April Fools joke was camouflaged this morning on account of readers' wishes. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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01.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)


 Pegasos.org with New Design
Together with the Swedish Pegasos user group, PUGS now presents the portal Pegasos.org in a new design. Along with that, PUGS announces for sometime later this year a LAN-Party "PUSH 2004" in Göteborg. You'll find more information under the title link. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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01.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)


 PowerPC Development Instructions from IBM
At their website, IBM has released instructions for those progressing with information about assembler programming of the PowerPC processor family. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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01.Apr.2004
Elbox (e-mail)


 Elbox: Free Shipping with Purchase of eFlash 4000
Elbox Computer, the manufacturer of hardware and software for Amiga computers, announces free shipping for the eFlash 4000 Zorro III cards purchases from the Elbox Online Store between 31 March and 13 April 2004. This offer is valid for orders from all countries of the world. For details, see the Special Offer page.

About the eFlash 4000 card:
eFlash 4000 is an autobooting Zorro III card with extremely fast 32-bit design, fitted with 8Mb of the FlashROM memory.

eFlash 4000 features:
  • 8Mbit of Flash memory
  • Extremely fast Zorro III interface
  • 32-bit datapatch
  • Boot ON/OFF switch
  • Program selector
  • Hardware write protection
  • 100,000 erase/programming cycles
  • 20-year data retention
eFlash 4000 package contents:
  • eFlash 4000 Zorro III card
  • eFlashCD with the Flash Writing/Verifying/Reading Tool software
More info about the eFlash 4000 cards you can find in the Elbox press announcements eFlash Memory for Amiga and New eFlasher available as well as in the corresponding product page of the eFlash 4000.

Order your eFlash 4000 Now and get FREE Shipping! (snx)

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31.Mar.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)


 Emulator: MaxUAE 0.8.25 including tool bundle released
The Amiga emulator MaxUAE for Mac OS X has been put online in version 0.8.25. Different to Richard Drummond's announcement on his homepage there still is no SCSI support within this version. But there will be a bugfix release available soon. With the pre-version the SCSI emulation works already. At the MaxUAE website there is also version 1.0 of a bundle of tools available. These tools simplify the usage of Drummond's UAE port and consist of the following parts: UAE Config Creator (to create configurations using a GUI), UAE Dropper, UAE Game Loader (easy assignment of ADFs and choice of the system) and the UAE Virtual Disk Assistant (creation of DD/HD Floppies and hard disk images). (nba) (Translation: ub)

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31.Mar.2004
Cloanto (ANF)


 Amiga Forever 6.0 to be launched at AmiGBG in Sweden
After more than two years of work, Amiga Forever 6.0 will premiere at AmiGBG in Gothenburg on April 3rd, 2004.

A launch seminar is scheduled to take place at 12:45. Amiga Forever 6.0 will be shown running on a notebook and on a MicroA1. This will be an exclusive presentation, a few days ahead of the planned Amiga Forever 6.0 website update and launch. (snx)

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31.Mar.2004
www.amigart.com (ANF)


 Amiga Python 2.2.3 Alpha 2 released
The new version includes the following improvements:
  1. XML- (pyexpat) support woks now
  2. bzip2- and zlib- (zip) support
  3. socket module for Internet access works now
  4. uses IEEE math libraries instead of FPU only
  5. improved Amiga and Amigapath modules, "st_size Bug" and other bugs removed
(cg) (Translation: ub)

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31.Mar.2004
Oliver Roberts (E-mail)


 Picture converter: SplitMultiImage 1.1
"SplitMultiImage" splits files that contain several pictures (e.g. multi-page TIFF fax files) into the individual pictures.

The new version fixes a bug which caused SplitMultiImage to save multiple copies of the same image for files containing only one image, when the datatype does not support PDTA_GetNumPictures. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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31.Mar.2004
ANN (Website)


 MorphOS: VIM 6.2.421 published
Ali Akcaagac has released VIM 6.2.421 for MorphOS. The update of that text editor which is known from the Unix world includes several new patches by Bram Moolenar, author and maintainer of VIM, and improvements of the MorphOS patches by Ali Akcaagac. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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31.Mar.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)


 SoundFX 4.3 available
Stefan Kost reports at the Sonic Pulse website that SoundFX version 4.3 is available now. There are processor specific binaries (68020-060) ready for download.

SoundFX is a modular editor for digitized sounds (samples). These samples can be manipulated with digital effects, recorded and played back as well as be cutted and new arranged. A detailed list of all possibilities is available at the product site according to SoundFX. The program is shareware. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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31.Mar.2004
Sinan Gürkan (ANF)


 Video of the OS4 & MicroA1 demo at Technology Channel online again
Thanks to OS4 Beta-Tester NERP who kindly offered us to host the video, Divx video (with English & French subtitles) of the AmigaOS4 / MicroA1 demo at Turkish Technology Channel is now available for download again.

Amiga.avi (11 MB)
English subtitles
French subtitles by OS4 Beta-Tester Herve (snx)

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31.Mar.2004
Amiga.org (website)


 Event: AmiWest 2004
In its seventh year, also in 2004 the AmiWest takes place in Sacramento, California (USA). The only Amiga show at the west coast of the United States is held at the "Inn at the Oaks" hotel on July 24th and 25th. (snx)

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31.Mar.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)


 Videos showing the AmigaOS 4 installation
By the title link there are several videos from the OS4 event "The Big Bash" in Peterborough (UK), among them one documenting the installation process of AmigaOS 4.

AmigaOS 4 installation process by CD (31 Min.)

WMV (240 MB)
RM (10 MB)
MPG (161 MB)
XVID (99 MB)

Several applications running under AmigaOS 4 (7 Min.)

WMV (57 MB)
RM (2,5 MB)
MPG (39 MB)
XVID (27 MB)

"Amiga users are not pure 'Techie Geeks'" (16 Min.)

WMV (126 MB)
RM (5,5 MB)
MPG (142 MB)
XVID (52 MB) (cg) (Translation: ub)

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30.Mar.2004
ANN (Website)


 Download manager: "Wallget" updated
"Wallget" is a download manager based on WGet, versions for MorphOS and AmigaOS 3 are available. Some screenshots are available on the author's homepage.

Most important changes in this version are:
  1. rewritten program core
  2. saving URL list to disk
  3. GUI changes (added progress meter, some graphics changed (only in MorphOS version))

For further changes look at the changelog included with the archive. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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30.Mar.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)


 Event: AmiGBG news
The AmiGBG-Team announces further details regarding the Amiga fair that will take place on the 3rd of April 2004 at Gothenburg, Sweden:

"AmiGBG Showcase

This is our attempt of putting the missing pieces together. Here we will give developers who do not have the opportunity to attend the fair the chance to show off their products. Currentlly we have GoldED, fxPAINT, Hollywood and Audio Evolution, but the list is growing by the minute!

Seminar Schedule

We have finally got the schedule up, take a look!

AmiGBG Anthem

The electronic band 2XM from Gothenburg, Sweden provide the official song for AmiGBG 2004; "AmiGBG 2004 Anthem" which will be played during the opening ceremony.

AmiGBG Awards

We will hand out one local and one foreign award at AmiGBG 2004. This is our way of saying thanks to those who have done so much for the Amiga community during the last difficult years." (cg) (Translation: cg)

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29.Mar.2004
ANN (Website)


 Web portal: aros-exec.org goes online
A new community portal, aros-exec.org, went online today:

"AROS-Exec is a portal for AROS community members. It's a virtual meeting place for users, developers and people interested in the Amiga Research Operating System. As most other fresh web sites more content will be added as time goes by." (cg) (Translation: cg)

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29.Mar.2004
Oliver Roberts (E-Mail)


 SplitMultiImage 1.0 released
The first version of a new tool called SplitMultiImage is now available.

Starting with AmigaOS 3.5, the picture.datatype documentation defined two new tags (PDTA_GetNumPictures and PDTA_WhichPicture), which allowed subclasses to return different images from the same file, where relevant. For example, TIFF image files often contain more than one image, and WarpTIFF.datatype is able to decode any of those images on request, returning any of the images to the application.

Unfortunately, not many applications have made use of this feature (in fact, at the time of writing, Oliver is not aware of any) and can therefore read only the first image in a file. After requests from WarpTIFF users wanting to know of software capable of reading all the pages in multi-page TIFF fax files, Oliver decided to write SplitMultiImage. Although not as nice as Multiview having this capability built-in, SplitMultiImage at least allows all the images to be viewed by extracting all the images from a file and saving them separately as IFF-ILBM files.

SplitMultiImage is not restricted to TIFF files - in theory, it will work with any datatypes supporting the new tags and for image formats that can contain multiple images. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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29.Mar.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)


 MorphOS: New, unnamed picture viewer
Kiero programmed a new so far unnamed picture viewer (165 KB). As soon as it has a name it will be available on Aminet.

Features:
  • Easy disk navigation with mouse or keyboard.
  • Images loaded with datatypes or builtin routines (for JPEG and SunRaster)
  • MUI GUI
  • Image processing options like color balance/resizing (same algos like in ACDSee)/levels adjustment/etc...
  • Saving in JPEG or PNG (with or without alpha channel)
  • Loading/displaying images with alphachannel (background is visible).
  • Scaling of graphics during display (with optional bilinear filtering).
  • Drag&drop support for files/directories.
  • Fullscreen mode and a possibility to minimize GUI elements.
  • It's slow;)
The following MUI-classes are needed:
Better Balance
Better String (Aminet)

(snx) (Translation: sk)

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29.Mar.2004
amiga.org (Website)


 autoconf, automake und libtool for AmigaOS 3
Henning Lund released autoconf-2.57, automake-1.7.8 und libtool-1.5.2 for AmigaOS 3.x. These ports require ixemul.library. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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27.Mar.2004
amigaworld.net (website)


 Video: MicroA1/OS4 presentation in Turkish television
There's now a DivX video with English subtitles of the MicroA1/AmigaOS4 presentation on the Turkish "Technology Channel" (we reported) available.

Direct download: Video (11 MB)
Direct download: English subtitles (cg) (Translation: wk)

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27.Mar.2004
Norman Walter (ANF)


 Amiga C course for beginners advances
The "Amiga C course for beginners" progresses. Opening the first Intuition window is now done. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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27.Mar.2004
ANN (Website)


 Archive-Tool: Free version of "xadmaster.library"
Jocke 'Zerohero' Sjöblom has recompiled the sources of the "xadmaster.library" for AmigaOS. This system enhancement makes a unique interface available so that external programs can unpack a great number of archive formats.

XAD had been available only as shareware or as part of AmigaOS 3.9 until recently but has been put under the GPL at the beginnning of this year (we reported).

XAD is for example supported by Directory Opus 4, MUI Unarc or Voodoo-X. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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27.Mar.2004
ANN (website)


 New YAM "developer" version for 060/MOS
Jocke 'Zerohero' Sjöblom has compiled the current sources of the open source email client YAM for MorphOS and 68060 processors. Both versions were created with GCC 2.95.3-4, Jocke points out that this is a "developers" version that can still contain bugs. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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27.Mar.2004
Andreas Weyrauch (organizer) (ANF)


 Event: AmigaOS4 event in Essen (Germany)
On May, 15th takes in the "Zukunft Zentrum Zollverein" in Essen the AmigaOS4 Event 2004 place. Among others Hyperion Entertainment will be there to show the current state of the AmigaOS4 development.

The visitors will get the chance to get an impression of AmigaOS4 themselves. For this there are 5 more AmigaOne computers. That'll be made available by the company Vesalia. The event is free. All further information can be found on the AmigaOS4 Event website. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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27.Mar.2004
Elbox Computer (E-Mail)


 Elbox: New eFlasher available
Elbox Computer is happy to announce availability of the new eFlasher program for the eFlash 4000 Zorro III card. Version 1.4 of the eFlasher program and version 1.0 of the eFlashConfig script have been released today for all registered users of the eFlash 4000 cards.

The eFlasher program is the tool developed for the eFlash 4000 Zorro III cards. It helps to manage FlashROM memory contents of the eFlash 4000 card. It installs AmigaOS ROM Updates and other modules, which can be started from the eFlash 4000 memory during the Amiga boot process.

Features of eFlasher:
  • supports the BoingBag-1 and BoingBag-2 AmigaOS ROM Updates
  • works with any resident modules
  • supports multiple modules in one file
  • AmigaOS updates done during the Amiga boot process are detected by the Setpatch automatically
eFlashConfig is an easy to use script to enable managing contents of memory in FlashROM of the eFlash 4000. (nba)

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27.Mar.2004
Patrick Henz (email)


 New freeCD: Made in Japan
Though this new freeCD titled "Made in Japan" is developed only for PCs had many work for it been done using an Amiga. The cover has been created with ArtEffect, Reflections, Lights over Mars and Amiga Fonts and the Japanese hymn had been mixed with DigiBooster. The price is 3,- Euro, the order can be placed directly at Faces of Mars. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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27.Mar.2004
Horst Diebel (ANF)


 Poll regarding further development of "Schlachtfeld"
In the forum of "Schlachtfeld" are meanwhile some very positive entries there. Regarding the requirements do some points appear again and again, e.g. network play, speed, problems under AGA or UAE. Unfortunately there's only a small number of users registered and the feedback via the beta tester form equals zero.

To find a perspective for a development continuation there's now an entry with several questions in the forum. The developers team hopes to receive numerous answers that give a clear view for the further development. Many thanks in advance to all who'll participate! (nba) (Translation: wk)

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27.Mar.2004
Beta2-ML


 MorphOS: Native beta version of NewsCoaster released
Tomasz Kaczanowski has on his website a first public beta version (312 KB) of NewsCoaster for MorphOS made available. The MUI based open source program NewsCoaster (GPL) allows reading newsgroups online and offline. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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