10.Apr.2009
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Hollywood 4: bitmapencoder.library
With Carsten Siegner's Bitmapencoder.library you can convert pixel graphics to Postscript 2.0 - source code. It is added with @INCLUDE to any Hollywood 4.0-script and offers an additional function.
Download: Bitmapencoder.lha (16 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Apr.2009
Ventzislav Tzvetkov (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Atari-Emulator Atari800 2.1.0
Atari800 emulates the 8 Bit-computers developed by Atari. New in version 2.1.0:
- added Axlon and Mosaic RAM expansions for Atari 400/800
- added emulation of 1400XL, 1450XLD, MIO and Black Box
- added support of .PRO copy-protected disk images
- implemented tape loading with variable bitrates
- implemented cassette writing via hardware registers
- added switching between NTSC and PAL color palettes
- event recording added (-record, -playback): save your game walkthrough
using the "-record mygame.dat" and later impress your friends by
your game skills or highest score using the "-playback mygame.dat"
- NTSC Filter option added to UI
- monitor supports arrow keys - e.g. up-arrow for history
- fix for "Ilusia" demo
- better GTIA bug mode emulation
- POKEY sound: nonlinear mixing (not enabled by default), two-tone filter
- fixed POKEY registers: ALLPOT, IRQEN and STIMER
- various Atari5200 fixes
- fixed Atrax cartridge bank switching
- fixed sound recording to WAV
- -showspeed fixed, now shows speed <= 100% correctly
- major source code cleanup, compiles with -pedantic etc.
- Save State: added support for Axlon and Mosaic (version increased to 5), fixed PBIM12 restoring, fixed PAGED_MEM error with POKEY, color palette restoring fixed
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Apr.2009
Lukas Stehlik (ANF)
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MorphOS: Summary of known Easter Eggs
Lukas "Luky" Stehlik has started a website which is supposed to list all Easter Eggs hidden in MorphOS.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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08.Apr.2009
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Giana Sisters for Nintendo DS released
The jump-and-run game Giana Sisters was published for Nintendo DS - afterwards the Amiga game was no longer sold 20 years ago because of legal objections of the Japanese Video game company.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Apr.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: New full versions online
The download section of the Amiga Future homepage was updated again. You can find a list of the new downloads under the title link. Additionally several descriptions and screenshots of exisiting games were updated.
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07.Apr.2009
(ANF)
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chip.de: The evolution of the graphical user-interfaces
On chip.de pictures show how the appearance of different desktops and graphical user-interface have changed in the last 25 years.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Apr.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Software-News: AmigaSYS 4 AGA R1.2 and AmiKit 1.5.8
For the Workbench distributions AmigaSYS and AmiKit updates were published. The changes are listed in the Changelogs (AmigaSYS, AmigaKit).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Apr.2009
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AmigaOS 4: 3D-Astronomy program Celestia
Andrea "afxgroup" Palmaté has ported the 3D-astronomy program Celestia to AmigaOS 4. The archive includes only very small objects. If you want to use the program more intensively you have to install additional extensions.
Apparently some "Out of Memory"-errors may happen if you want to change the size of the window. The author recommends to start the program again when a new size of the window was set.
Celestia requires MiniGL 2.1 Beta.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Apr.2009
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Remake of GVP-products
GVP-M is going to produce some of its Amiga extensions. The American trader Hut offers the following products in his webshop:
- GVP 4MB and 16MB 60ns RAM Module
- GVP 4060DT
- GVP A2000 060 Accelerator
- GVP Spectrum Graphics Board
- GVP Typhoon A1200 030 40MHz Accelerator
These products probably will be not delivered to Europe because it is a remake of old developments which do not square with the RoHS-directive.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Apr.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: MiniGL 2.1 Beta
Hans de Ruiter has published an update of the OpenGL-compatible 3D-API MiniGL for AmigaOS 4. Beta version 2.1 fixes some bugs and includes updated developer files to all new functions of MiniGL 2.x.
Download: minigl.lha (3 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Apr.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Spiel BOH available (Update)
The Italian developer Editel has published the commercial game called BOH for AmigaOS 4 and Windows (screenshot).
Features:
- Immediate & addictive gameplay
- Immersive & thrilling action
- 25 challenging missions divided into 5 levels of difficulty
- Multi-phase missions
- Battlefields of any size and shape (also spread over multiple floors)
- AI-driven enemies
- Hand-pixelled 2D graphics
- Real-time lighting
- Atmospheric audio
- Full expandibility (themes, missions, languages)
- German, English, Español, Français and Italiano translations
The game will be delivered on CD-ROM in a DVD-case with a colourful English guide.
Update: (05.04.2009, 16:00, cg)
In the download section of the BOH-website the manual is available as PDF-document. The author is thinking about a free demo version. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.Apr.2009
PPA (Webseite)
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Web-Browser Merlin 0.0.3
Under the title link another beta version of the Web browser Merlin for AmigaOS and AmigaOS 4 (and some other platforms) was published. Version 0.0.3 includes an additional 68k-version which is twice as fast and which fixes colour bugs of the graphical user-interface.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Apr.2009
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS Developer Connection closed
According to MorphZone the website of the MorphOS Developer Connection (MDC) was closed because of technical reasons.
Most of the files which could be downloaded there will be available on the official website of the MorphOS-team. There is a replacement for the discussions between developers in the sub forums of the MorphZone.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Apr.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: MPlayer 1.0rc3 "1April"
Andrea "afxgroup" Palmate has published an update of his OS4-port of the well-known video player MPlayer. The most important changes:
- Should be really faster than previous version (due a faster ffmpeg.. ;)
- Fixed fullscreen mouse pointer hide/show when click the mouse
- Now if you press "c"..
- Fixed Fullscreen play
- Updated to the mplayer last version
- Fixed Arexx port. Now the Daniel GUI should work ok
- Thanks to Fab for his Morphos port of Mplayer that is a lot enhanced and faster.. :)
The new menu can be deactivated by setting line "menu=1" in the configuration file conf/config. Though decoding videos should work much faster.
Download: mplayer1april.lha.lzh (5,1 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Apr.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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ACube Systems: SAM440-flex will be delivered soon
Press release: ACube Systems Srl is pleased to announce the availability of the new SAM440ep-flex motherboard.
The motherboard is available in two versions: With 800 Mhz or 667 Mhz. The 800 Mhz-version are selected boards with a 667 Mhz-CPU clocked higher. The boards are deeply tested and guaranteed to work at 800 Mhz.
Shipping will start within 15 days to our resellers. Suggested prices to end users are:
- SAM-flex 667 Mhz: 369 Euro
- SAM-flex 800 Mhz: 399 Euro
All prices escluding local taxes and shipping costs.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Apr.2009
Patrick Nevian (ANF)
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Amiga meets Piano: Downloads online again
Patrick Nevian offers piano versions of well-known soundtracks of different Amiga games. Temporarily only the complete album was available via Rapidshare-download. Meanwhile all titles as well as the complete album can be downloaded as normal downloads.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Apr.2009
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Sodipodi 0.34 for AmiCygnix
Edgar Schwan has ported the vector illustrator program Sodipodi in version 0.34 for his X11-environment AmiCygnix (screenshot). With this program files of the SVG-format can be created and edtited.
Some features of Sodipodi:
- Powerful functions for editing vector graphics
- Paint modes:
- Rectangle
- Ellipse
- Star
- Spiral
- Pen
- Pencil
- Calligraphy
- Text
- Gradients (linear and radial)
- Intuitive user-interface
- High working speed
- Print function
- Export to PNG-format, with the print function export to Postscript and PDF-format
- Direct editing of SVG-data in a XML-editor
- a.m.m.
Download: sodipodi.lha (7 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Apr.2009
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Airsoft Softwair: Poll about future development
Press release On the Airsoft-Softwair homepage you can currently find a big opinion poll which is supposed to help finding out the requests and wishes of the Amiga users.
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01.Apr.2009
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AROS-Video: Icaros Desktop 1.1 on the iMica-PC
Stephen Jones has published a video which shows the latest version 1.1 of the AROS-distribution Icaros Desktop on his x86-based AROS-system iMica (amiga-news.de reported).
The first part of the video is about the latest Icaros-desktop-version itself and the part 2 is about the included Amiga emulator Janus-UAE.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Apr.2009
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Oric-Emulator Oriculator 0.0.1 (preview version)
Peter Gordon's Oriculator is a Oric-emulator for AmigaOS 4 and Windows.
This emulator has been not finished in version 0.0.1 but is supposed to give a first preview.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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31.Mar.2009
MorphZone (Forum)
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Event: Pictures of PowerDev-Meeting 6 in Lublin
On this weekend in Polish Lublin the sixth PowerDev-Meeting took place. Under the title link some pictures were uploaded which show the beta version of DigiBooster 3 under AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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31.Mar.2009
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Amaya 9.55 for AmiCygnix
The last of the Cygnix programs was now updated. The Web editor Amaya was compiled in
version 9.55 for AmiCygnix. The project was compiled with GTK-1 GUI which is no longer supported in newer versionsn (currently v11.1).
New in this version:
- Support of annotations.
- Support of cooperations.
- Working printer support.
- Many improvements.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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30.Mar.2009
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Cinnamon Writer 0.61 (beta version)
Claus Desler's Cinnamon Writer is a SDL-based word processing software for AmigaOS 4. The aim of the programmer is to provide an effective and fast word processing software with the most useful functions.
According to the author beta version 0.61 is faster and includes some new functions.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 30. Mar. 2009, 16:36] [Comments: 0]
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30.Mar.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: German report about AmigaOS 4.1 on the Sam440ep
Alexander Riedel wrote a german report of his experience with AmigaOS 4.1 on the Sam440ep board. You can read the article at the title link in the article database of the Amiga Future homepage. (snx)
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29.Mar.2009
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Instant Messenger: SabreMSN 0.43
James 'jahc' Carroll has published an update of his Instant Messenger for the MSN-Network for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4 and AROS.
In version 0.43 a bug with Tabs Smilies was fixed.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Mar.2009
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Individual Computers: New Indivision models and memory expansion A603
Press release As announced in january of this year, delivery of our flickerfixer "Indivision AGA" for the Amiga 4000 (desktop version) and the CD32 has begun this week. In order to start sales worldwide at the same time, we have shipped a few units a little earlier to our partners in the USA. The first customers in the US and Germany have already recieved their pre-ordered board. Delivery to customers in Sweden and England starts today.
Indivision AGA brings the Amiga's graphics output to a modern monitor or flat screen. The user can choose almost any model on the market, because Indivision AGA doesn't only double the frame rate, but even displays a PAL screenmode at more than 60 Hz flicker-free. For every screenmode, the full colour depth of 24 bits is displayed.
Indivision AGA is available from our resellers for 129,- EUR (RRP incl. German VAT). We're especially happy to have a new partner in Switzerland. Relec Hardware and Software delivers both versions of Indivision AGA with a French manual.
Indivision ECS under development
The next version of our popular flickerfixer will be made for Amiga models with OCS- and ECS-chipset. Since the older chipsets only work with a colour depth of 12 bits (4096 colours), we're expecting a slightly lower price for this model. It is meant to work with the Amiga models A500, A600 (memory expansion A603 required), A1000, A2000 and A3000. All known technical data will presumably be in Indivision ECS: All screenmodes will be output with more than 60 Hz, and the S-Hires modes of the ECS chipset will be displayed in full resolution. Indivision ECS will be installed on the socket of the Denise chip of the target computer. We're expecting the first prototype in about three months.
New memory expansion A603 for A600
In 2006, we already introduced a memory expansion for the smallest of all Amigas, the A600. To our surprise, the demand for this expansion is still high, so we didn't just make a new production run, but made a further development. The new expansion offers 1 MB of additional chipmem, a real-time clock and a clockport for connection of A1200 expansions. In addition to that, the A603 offers a socket for installing Indivision ECS. The new memory expansion will be available from our resellers before the end of april 2009 for 39,90 EUR (RRP incl. German VAT). For operation of the real-time clock, a coin cell (type CR2032) is required, which is not included. Installing the expansion requires mechanical work on the metal shield of the computer.
Chameleon delayed
The new multi-functional cartridge for the C64 with flickerfixer, memory expansion, floppy-emulation, freezer- and turbo-functionality has experienced multiple changes during recent development that have delayed mass-production. In addition to that, several semiconductor vendors have disappointed us with extremely long delivery times, so we had to make more changes in order to keep quick mass-production possible. Development of Chameleon is our top priority at the moment and it does not depend on chip delivery times any more. If you want to test Chameleon before it's release, you can do that with the C-One. A Chameleon core is available for free download. (snx)
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28.Mar.2009
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Datenbank: MUIbase 2.8
Steffen Gutmann has published an update of his database MUIbase. Changes in version 2.8:
- Window buttons always open windows (rather than open/close windows)
on all systems
- Include Check.mb (project for unit testing) in the binary distribution
- New images for welcome window, about dialog, window title and
window buttons (thanks to Christoph and Sebastian Pölzl)
- New PNG and Glow icon set (thanks to and Pascal Marcelin)
- Support for 64 bit Linux
- Improved performance for importing records
- Reworked the 'paths relative to dir of project' implementation
- Improved character codeset conversion. Encoding of text files is
auto-detected as one of UTF-8, locale encoding, or ISO-8859-1.
Conversion errors are reported as warnings.
- Several bug fixes
The MUIbase-distribution inlcludes ports for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. An AROS-port will follow soon.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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28.Mar.2009
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 3.9 (Update)
Jörg Strohmayer has published a new update of his port of the Origyn Web Browser. OWB 3.8 now supports file downloads. The further changes are listed in the Changelog.
Download: OWB.lha (11,6 MB)
Update: (30.04.2009, 15:00)
Meanwhile version 3.9 is available which fixes some bugs. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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27.Mar.2009
Amigaweb.net (Webseite)
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Merlin: Beta version of new browser
Under the title link a first beta version was published of a web browser for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, Mac OS and Windows.
Support of CSS and Javascript is already included but not completed.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. Mar. 2009, 22:31] [Comments: 0]
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27.Mar.2009
Psyria (ANF)
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Music: Blue Metal Rose-CD published
"Spreading the seed" is called the debut album (EP) of Blue Metal Rose and can be now bought over the homepage of the group.
This little album was made with the help of an Amiga 4000. With Octamed Soundstudio the drum-sequenzes and synth-sounds were edited.
If you got interested then you can listen to a part of the CD on the homepage.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.Mar.2009
Exec.pl (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Screen-Recorder SRec 1.10
SRec written by Fredrik Wikstrom is a program for AmigaOS 4.1 which records all processes on the screen as video (screenshot).
Download: srec.lha (373 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.Mar.2009
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MorphOS: Firewire-Stack Helios 0.3.323
Guillaume 'Yomgui' Roguez has published another beta version of his Firewire-stack for MorphOS 2.x on Aminet. There are still some limitations:
- Isochrone mode supported only in reception
- Asynchrone mode limitations:
- Ping request not supported
- Stream request not supported
- FWInspect shows only the first PCI OHCI1394 bridge found on the host
Download: Helios_0.3.323.lha (101 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.Mar.2009
AROS-Exec (Webseite)
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AROS: Icaros Desktop 1.1 (formerly VmwAROS)
In order to prevent any misunderstandings from now on the AROS-distribution VmwAROS is called Icaros Desktop.
In version 1.1 the Web browser OWB and the PDF-viewer ArosPDF were added and the Amiga-emulation was improved with Janus-UAE 0.3. There is a detailed list of all changes under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Mar.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Sega-Emulator SMS Plus 0.9.4a R7
SMS Plus is an emulator of the Sega-consoles Master System and Game Gear and was now ported in version 0.9.4a R7 for AmigaOS 4.
Download: SMSPlus.lha (363 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Mar.2009
ANF
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Technologizer/Computerworld: Retrospects honoured the Amiga
Two American computer websites honoured the Amiga. Technologizer.com wondered Whatever Happened to...? and remembered Lotus 1-2-3, CompuServe, Floppy- and Zip-Disks.
Computerworld introduced 10 operating systems the world left behind and hopes that the Amiga will be not completely forgotten. For an operating system which created "Max Headroom" is worth being seen again.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Mar.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Poll: How many users have a DVD-drive?
The Amiga Future wants to know how many Amiga users have a DVD-drive - either in the Amiga or in different computer.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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26.Mar.2009
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Remake: Accellerators mady by GVP-M
Apperently GVP-M is going to produce a remake of existing accellerators for Amiga 1200 and Amiga 4000. There are not any more detailed information but according to some emails on amiga.org and a1k.org a charge of A4000DT-060 will be available at the end of April, beginning of May. The price might be 450 USD (plus taxes and shipping).
If you are interested in such a GVP-M-product then write a mail to Michael Wojciechowski.
This mail contact is still not an order. Orders can be only done if the production was started.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Mar.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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UAE4ALL: Symbian-port
Under the title link the Amiga emulator UAE4ALL is available as a Symbian-OS-port (S60, version 3 and 5).
The following mobile phones should work with it: Nokia E90 Communicator, 3250, 5320 XpressMusic, 5500 Sport, 5700 XpressMusic, 6110 Navigator, 6210 Navigator, 6120/6121 Classic, 6124 Classic, 6220 Classic, 6290, 6650, N71, N73, N75, N76, N77, N78, N79, N80, N81, N82, N85, N91, N92, N93, N93i, N95, N96, N97, E50, E51, E60, E61, E61i, E62, E63, E65, E66, E70, E71, Samsung SGH-i400, i450, i520, i550, i560, G810, L870, i7110, Innov8, 5800 XpressMusic, LG KT610, LG KT615 and LG KS10.
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25.Mar.2009
o1i (ANF)
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AROS: Janus-UAE v0.3
For AROS/x86 Oliver 'o1i' Brunner has started developing a new branch of the Amiga emulator E-UAE called Janus-UAE. The reason is the UAE-integration which is already in progress. The most important difference to E-UAE is the support of Picasso96.
Changes in Janus-UAE 0.3:
- Picasso96 bug fixed
- Full Screen Modes
- new GUI preferences for screen/window options
- Commodity functions (quit/hide/show)
Janus-UAE is available on Aminet and at the AROS-archives. There is a SVN-repository on sourceforge.net.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Mar.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Developer tool: vlink 0.12c
vlink is a portble linker which can handle a lot of binary formats. The program is also part of the vbcc-distribution.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Mar.2009
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MorphOS: Updates of MPlayer and Drawerball
MPlayer 1.0-svn-2009.03.21
Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly has published an update of his MorphOS-port of the media player MPlayer (screenshot). The changes are listed in the Readme.
Download: MPlayer-1.0-svn-2009.03.21.lha (9,1 MB)
Drawerball 0.7j
Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin has published version 0.7j of Drawerball which is an early version of a simple file manager.
Link: Download site
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18.Mar.2009
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Anubis OS: Homepage online
The Anubis-OS-homepage was officially started.
Anubis is a fast, Amiga-inspired operating system based on Linux-kernels. The main components are going to program in the programming language Objective C.
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17.Mar.2009
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Event: Vintage Computer Festival Europe, Munich
From 1. until 3. of May in Munich the tenth issue of the "Vintage Computer Festival Europe" will take place. With this festival historical computers are to maintain and support.
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17.Mar.2009
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MorphOS: PowerSDL 14.0
Ilkka Lehtoranta has published an update of his SDL-port for MorphOS. Users of version 1.x of the operating system require the update package published in January with MorphOS-2.x-functions.
Changes in version 14.0:
- Fixed various performance problems with rendering functions
- New CGX accelerated render calls
- powersdl.library updated to version 14.0 (added missing SDL_REFromConstMem call)
- powersdl_gfx updated to version 11.0 (sdl_gfx 2.0.18)
- powersdl_image.library updated to version 9.5
The update can be downloaded over MorphUp (PMI-Index).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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16.Mar.2009
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WHDLoad: New packages until 16.03.2009
With WHDLoad games and scene demos can be installed on harddrive which were originally written for disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with newer Amiga models were fixed.
The following installers have been added, improved or updated since our last message:
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16.Mar.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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UAE: AmiKit 1.5.7
AmiKit is a complete distribution for UAE-users and is now available in version 1.5.7. If you have a previous version installed you should update it over the Live-Update function.
The changes are listed in the Changelog.
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16.Mar.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Event: Pictures from Numerica 2009
On amigafuture.de some pictures of the scene party Numerica were published.
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15.Mar.2009
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: AmiTV test version 0.10
Ian Gledhill has published another test version of AmiTV with which you can use TV-cards under AmigaOS 4. He asks for your feedback. Please note the Readme-file.
Download: AmiTV_0.10.lha (516 KB)
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[News message: 15. Mar. 2009, 16:49] [Comments: 0]
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15.Mar.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Event: MossyCon 5 in Astoria, Oregon (USA)
On 5. April in Astoria in Oregon (USA) the MossyCon 5 will take place. Contact: Robert Bernardo from the Fresno Commodore User Group.
Address of the hotel: Moose Lodge, 420 17th Street, Astoria, Oregon 97103, Telefon (503) 325-0881.
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14.Mar.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga Arena: Keyfile for Uropa 2 and Breed96 online again
The keyfile for the game Uropa 2 can be now downloaded from the website of Amiga Arena again.
You can also download the full version of the space settlement game Breed96 which was released on 2002.
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14.Mar.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Video-Tutorial: E-UAE on the PlayStation 3
The Amiga emulator E-UAE can be used on a PlayStation 3 with Yellow-Dog-Linux (amiga-news.de reported). Under the title link a video tutorial was published which demonstrates that.
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14.Mar.2009
Jürgen Lachmann (ANF)
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Desktop: Scalos 41.6
After one and a half year the developers of Scalos have published with version 41.6 an update for the Workbench replacement for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4.x and MorphOS.
There are thumbnails for most of the video formats, transparent windows under AmigaOS 4.x and MorphOS as well as support of files with more than 4 GB under MorphOS.
Additionally an updated developer package was published as well as catalog files and the source codes of the video preview plugin.
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13.Mar.2009
PPA (website)
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Interview with Jamie Woodhouse (english/polish)
On PPA an interview with Jamie Woodhouse has been published. He is the author of games like Qwak, All Terrain Racing and Nitro.
The interview is available in English at the title link as well as in Polish. Jamie Woodhouse is mainly speaking about the history of creating his games. (snx)
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13.Mar.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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OnyxSoft: CodeAudio 3.0 / Homepage reworked
On the occasion of the 14th anniversary the OnyxSoft-Team reworked its homepage. Additionally the user-interface CodeAudio - formerly known as TheMPegEncGUI - was published in version 3.0.
Changes:
- An MP3 encoding Wizard has been added which makes it easier than ever before to make high quality MP3 files in no time
- Added support for Flac, the free lossless audio codec
- Updated locale catalogs for German, Italian, Spanish
- Works on MorphOS with MUI 4
- Restructured every encoder GUI that had more than one page and turned them into virtual groups
- Made it possible to drop directories on the list window and the Wizard
- Updated to the latest Lame executables for all systems on the auto-update server
- AutoUpdate should work in E-UAE/Linux now
- Should not try to locate the CD drive at startup everytime now. Also enhanced the CD detection code a lot so it works on MorphOS and WinUAE
- Better installation of FreeDB
- Uninstall options for CDDB and FreeDB if they were installed by TheMPegEncGUI/CodeAudio
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13.Mar.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Amiga events in France and Switzerland
In March and April in France and in Lausanne (Switzerland) some events will take place for Amiga users. You can get further details under the title link.
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12.Mar.2009
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Software-News until 12.03.2009
WBRSS 1.0
WBRSS written by Diego "DCR8520" Casorran is a little RSS-reader which displays RSS-Feeds in a scrolling window. You can also change the window preferences.
Link: amiga.sf.net
AISSTBC 0.1
The MUI-based AISSTBC ("AISS Toolbar Creator") is supposed to support developers creating button menus: With drag'n drop you can configure and save whole button menus from AISS-pictures.
Link: amiga.sf.net
NZBGet 0.5.1
NZBGet downloads binary files from the Usenet with the help of the NZB-standard. The Amiga-version was created by Diego "DCR8520" Casorran.
Link: amiga.sf.net
Text viewer: EvenMore 0.66-11.03.09
The latest version of the text viewer EvenMore includes the following changes:
- Fixed a bug which meant only files up to 65536 lines could be displayed. File loading should also be faster now
- Plugin code on opening file had broken the loading of XPK files
- Fixed bug which caused the plugin preferences not to be saved if you used the gadget to open the preference window.
- Fixed bug which caused a file handle to be freed twice if reading failed.
- Added "Launch exe" option to the Generic Prefs plugin. Enabling this option will allow the updated Generic2Text plugin to launch an executable file from EvenMore if the user tries to load it.
- Dir2Text plugin will no longer try to sort an empty directory.
- Added a / in the Dir2Text directory listing to allow you to move to the parent directory.
Amiga Future: New full versions
The download section of the Amiga Future was completed with further full versions, manuals, magazines and similar things. Additionally several descriptions screenshots of downloads were updated.
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11.Mar.2009
os4welt.de (Webseite)
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Hyperion: Downloads for registered customers available again
After the relaunch of the Hyperion website some weeks ago several updates are available again for registered customers.
Hint: The 20th Anniversary Bonus Pack is offered as well. Please note that some of the files included in the archive are old and therefore you should not install the archive automatically. But because of the included "themes" it may be interesting for some of you.
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10.Mar.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Protrekkr 1.98d
Protrekkr (formerly sold as "NoiseTrekker") is a SDL-based music program which combines a software synthesiser with a traditional, sample-based tracker (screenshot). The AmigaOS 4-port was created by Fredrik Wikstrom.
The AmigaOS-version of Protrekkr uses the latest, dynamically linked version of the SDL-library which works under AmigaOS 4.1. A statically linked version, which also works under OS 4.0, the author provides on his website (protrekkr-static.lha, 488 KB).
It is recommended to use the program in "Fullscreen"-modus.
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10.Mar.2009
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Event: Little Computer People 2009 (Sweden)
The second issue of the "Little Computer People" (LCP) will take place from 17. until 19. July in Lund (Sweden). The LCP is a meeting for friends of classic home computers and will offer a traditional demo competition as well as several further attractions.
The admission fee will be 12-15 Euro. Further details will be published in the next weeks.
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10.Mar.2009
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MorphOS: DOSBox 0.72
DOSBox is a SDL-based MS-DOS-emulator which is meant for the emulation of old games. The MorphOS-version was created by Michal "rzookol" Zukowski.
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09.Mar.2009
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Podcast: Amiga Round Table, Episode 38
Der "Amiga Round Table" (ART) is an English podcast in which Amiga users and invited guests have discussed the latest events of the Amiga scene. Rich Lawrence, Mike Blackburn and Bill Panagouleas have led this episode.
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09.Mar.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Workbench-Distribution: AmigaSYS 4 (Amithlon) Update R1.2
AmigaSYS is a preinstalled Workbench with many extensions which are mainly useful for users of emulators. Additionally only a file with the Kickstart-ROM as well as at least one Workbench-disk of version 3.x are required.
The update of the Amithlon-version of AmigaSYS includes updated versions of some of the packages delivered with the distribution.
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09.Mar.2009
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Pictures of production of Indivision A4000/CD32
Under the title link Jens "Paradroid" Schönfeld by Individual Computers explained that the production of the A4000-/CD32-version of the Scandoubler Indivision was started and and gave some details about the production.
Indivision AGA A4000/CD32 is going to be released in about 14 days.
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[News message: 09. Mar. 2009, 15:46] [Comments: 0]
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09.Mar.2009
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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Event: PowerDev Meeting 6 in Lublin (Poland)
The next meeting from the PowerDev series will be held on 28-29 March 2009 in Lublin, Poland. While the main topics are MorphOS and Efika, all enthusiasts of Amiga[like] systems and hardware are welcome.
More information can be found at the title link and Bill Buck's blog entry. (snx)
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09.Mar.2009
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Cross-Compiler: AmiDevCpp 0.9.8
AmiDevCpp is an integrated Cross-Platform developing environment for Windows with which C/C++-applications can be developed for AmigaOS (m68k), AmigaOS 4 (PPC), MorphOS(PPC) and AROS (x86, x86-64, PPC).
Thanks to Markus 'mausle' Weiss all AROS-Cross-compilers were updated to gcc 4.2.2. Further thanks to the wx-DevC++-team for the IDE, Jocke 'zerohero' Birging for the Cross-Compiler for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS as well as for
Chris 'PortablE' Handley for the beta testing under Windows Vista.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Mar.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: DrawerBall 0.7h
Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin has published Drawerball to version 0.7h. It is a very early version of a simple file manager.
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[News message: 08. Mar. 2009, 16:16] [Comments: 0]
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07.Mar.2009
pegasosforum.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: ScummVM 0.13.0 and X-Moto 0.5.0
Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly has published updates of his MorphOS-ports of the adventure interpreter ScummVM and of the 2D-motocross-racing game X-Moto.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Mar.2009
Amiga Arena (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Stefan Moka (Windows program "Launcher")
The Amiga Arena has interviewed Stefan Moka (in German). This Amiga fan has written Launcher for Windows XP which is a program similar to AmiDock and ToolManager.
Visitors of the Amiga Arena can purchase Launcher for a special price until 1st of April.
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[News message: 05. Mar. 2009, 17:28] [Comments: 0]
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05.Mar.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Amitopia TV: Issue 4/09 online
Amitopia TV is an English video magazine about the Amiga. Topics of the latest issue:
- Amiga News
- The Mysterious Cities Of Cold
- MusicBox: PsyKicko, Pijanist
- AmiReporters
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05.Mar.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 77 (March/April 2009)
Press release: The Amiga Future issue 77 (March/April 2009) has been released today. This means that all preorders and subscriptions shipped today. In this issue you'll find a short review of SAM440ep-flex. Furthermore there is a review of the recently released AmigaOS 4 SDK and MorphOS 2.2. Of course reviews like Evenmore, Robbo, Warpview and others aren't missing either.
This time you'll find the full version of SoundFX besides other full versions on the cover CD. Moreover there are about 90MB of data and sources of the unreleased game Fortress of Fear. A more detailed description of the content and some excerpts can be found on our website.
The Amiga Future is available as an English or German print magazine directly at the editorial office and from some Amiga dealers. The Amiga Future is available as a single issue and subscription each with or without a cover CD. A few older issues are still available in our online shop.
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04.Mar.2009
amigaworld.net
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Workbench-Distribution: AmigaSYS 4 Update R1.2
AmigaSYS is a preinstalled Workbench with many extensions which are mainly useful for users of emulators. Additionally a file with the Kickstart-ROM as well as at least one Workbench-disk of version 3.x are required.
The update to R1.2 includes updates versions of some applications:
- AmigaAMP 2.20
- AmigaAMP External
- Whdload 16.9
- SabreMSN 0.42 beta
- SabreMSN GFX update
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04.Mar.2009
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AmigaOS 4: Demo version of Digital Universe 1.6
Bill Eaves has published a demo version of his astronomy program Digital Universe 1.6. The update to version 1.6 is free for registered customers and there will be a full version for new customers as well.
The demo version of DU 1.6 can be installed beside existing, older versions of the program.
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04.Mar.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AROS: First beta versions of the Windows-port
Pavel 'Sonic' Fedin has published a first beta versions of the AROS port under Windows.
Currently the bounty project is donated 105 US-Dollar and 23 Euro and with it under Windows a virtual maschine is no longer necessary.
Link: Download site
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03.Mar.2009
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Software-News until 03.03.2009
LookHere! 1.0
Fabio Falcucci's "LookHere!" is a picture viewer created with Hollywood 4.0 (screenshot). LookHere! offers over 100 different fading effects as well as thumbnail and slideshow modes and is available for all Amiga operating systems.
Link: Download site
vlink 0.12b
vlink is a portable Linker which gets along with many binary formats. Changes in version 0.12b:
- (ados/ehf) LoadSeg<=V40 doesn't allow more than 31 longwords per symbol in HUNK_SYMBOL and will respond with "bad loadfile hunk" otherwise. So we just cut everything after 124 characters.
Link: Download site
Diverse Onyxsoft-Updates
The Onyxsoft team has published updates for the backup tool BackUp, the screen magnifier ZoomIT, the MPlayer-GUI as well as for WiiLoader.
Link: Download site (cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Mar.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulation: Bugfix for Portable AmigaSYS Live '09
The "Live"-version of the AmigaOS-distribution AmigaSYS installs a complete AmigaOS-based working environment on a bootable USB-stick. The operating system Slax which is a Linux-distribution boots the system and then with E-UAE the AmigaOS is started.
The first version had still some bugs so an update with the following improvements was published:
- Linux: New EUAE, old not supported ALSA, sound error
- Linux: New AmigaSYS LMZ
- Linux: New configurations
- AmigaSYS: Fully Live specified AmigaSYS4.hdf
- AmigaSYS: AmigaOS 3.9 FIX (Need: AmigaOS 3.1 512 MB, AmigaOS 3.9: 1 GB USB stick)
- AmigaSYS: New AmigaDOS installers
- AmigaSYS: Added/installed AmigaSYS 4 E-UAE R1 (french support, fixes, news, news boot, etc)
- AmigaSYS: AHI, MMkeyboard fix, and etcetcetc...
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02.Mar.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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UAE: AmiKit 1.5.6
AmiKit which is a complete distribution for UAE users is now available in version 1.5.6 and should be installed with Live-Update.
The changes are listed in the Changelog.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Mar.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Issue 47 online
Press release: The german issue 47 of the Amiga Future are out of stock. Because of that, you can read the magazines' articles on our website now.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
[News message: 02. Mar. 2009, 15:14] [Comments: 0]
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02.Mar.2009
Hollywood Mailingliste (ANF)
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Hollywood: GUI-library ScuiLib 0.6
ScuiLib written by Fabio Falcucci is a GUI-library for Hollywood. Version 0.6 includes adaptions to the recently published Hollywood 4.
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[News message: 02. Mar. 2009, 15:11] [Comments: 0]
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02.Mar.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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MIDI-Sequencer: BarsnPipes 1.29
Alfred Faust has published an update of his multimedia MIDI-sequencer called BarsnPipes. The changes of version 1.29 are listed in the history.
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