08.May.2009
HelmutH (ANF)
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ACube Systems: Hollywood-Bundle for new and old Sam-customers
Press release:
Bassano del Grappa, 08. Mai 2009
ACube Systems is pleased to team up with Airsoft Softwair to create the exclusive "Sam goes to Hollywood" bundle for our customers.
The Sam range of motherboards and Hollywood put AmigaOS 4.1 back to the highest levels of multimedia experience.
"Sam goes to Hollywood" special bundle allows the customers of a Sam or Sam Flex board to have Hollywood 4 at the exceptional price of only 59,00 EUR (normal price 79 EUR) or Hollywood 4 + Designer 2.1 for 99,00 EUR (normal price 139 EUR).
The bundle will be available for current owners of a Sam board and with the purchase of a new Sam440ep or Sam440 Flex board, please note that only AmigaOS 4 binaries are on the Hollywood CD but it is possible to create projects for all supported platforms. This bundle will be available until 1st october 2009. Customers who already bought a Sam board should contact ACube Systems with their Sam serial number.
For more info about Hollywood 4 and other Airsoft Softwair products please visit: airsoftsoftwair.com.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.May.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: 19 further Full Versions online
The download area of the Amiga Future homepage has been updated again. There are 19 further full versions online. New downloads are highlighted in the download database. Additionally there is an overview of new downloads at the lower border of the download page.
Furthermore there have been updates to the descriptions and screenshots of some downloads. (snx)
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06.May.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Minimig: Firmware-Update YQ090421
Jakub 'Yaqube' Bednarski has published a Firmware update for Dennis van Weeren's Amiga clone Minimig.
The changes are listed under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.May.2009
Hacker News (ANF)
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History: 25 Microchips that shook the world
Under the titel link IEEE Spectrum looked back at 25 important Microchips, e.g. the 6502 (MOS Technology, 1975), Z80 (Zilog, 1976) and Crusoe (Transmeta, 2000) as well as Motorolas MC68000 produced in 1979.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.May.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Game: BOH-Update
The commercial game BOH (amiga-news.de reported) was updated and is now available for Mac OS X as well.
Changes:
- Makes the game run natively on MacOS X Tiger/Leopard machines
- Adds zooming to full screen modes
- Allows the choice of the screen mode among those notified by the system
- Replaces zooming routines with more optimized ones (especially 3x and 4x)
- Adds the possibility of disabling interpolation (for slow computers)
- Adds the possibility of disabling the rendering of barriers
- Improves a bit the original themes
- Enriches slightly the Evil Masters AI
- Adds timer ticking during time-limited missions
- Adds map zooming
- Adds the option of sorting missions by difficulty
- Allows the use of joypads/joysticks with just 1 button
- Fixes the following bugs:
- Bad joypad handling (detection was inhibited by a '2' in place of a '1'; sometimes up/down movement could stick)
- [PAGE UP/DOWN] handling (repeat delay handling was missing)
- A bad optimization of ray-tracing routine (which had no practical effects thanks to the way maps and themes were made)
- Improves and extends the user's manual
- Links the AmigaOS 4 version to libSDL 1.2.13
- Applies some other minor changes
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.May.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Porting Guide for Dummies 2.4
Spot's Porting Guide for Dummies is an English porting guide of multiplatform programs for AmigaOS 4 and is now available in version 2.4. Under the title link the changes are listed.
Download: spots-pfd.lha (62 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.May.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Individual Computers: Delivery of A603 started
Since last week Individual Computers has started delivering the A603 which is a memory extension for the Amiga 600 with one Megabyte of additional Chip-Ram, a realtime clock, a clock port for connecting A1200-extensions as well as a socket for the scandoubler Indivision ECS.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.May.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future issue 78
Press release: The Amiga Future Issue 78 (May/June 2009) is out now.
This means that all orders, subscriptions and dealer supplies have been brought to the postal office today.
Again you'll find many reviews in this issue like AmigaOS 4 on SAMflex, Protext, OWB, Hollywood 4 and much more. But we have workshops like Ghostscript in this issue as well.
On the cover CD you will find lots of PD software and the full versions of Foundation, Protext, Prodata, Adventure System and more. A more detailed description of content and excerpts of the issue 78 can be found in the Amiga Future Article Database.
The Amiga Future is available as a single issue and subscription directly at the editorial office and some Amiga dealers like AmigaKit, Alinea, GGD-Data, Samuli, Vesalia and Voxel. If you are a dealer and interested in offering the Amiga Future to your customers then please drop us an email.
The english issue 77 sold off. Other old issues are available in our onlineshop.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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04.May.2009
BitFellas (ANF)
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BitJam Podcast #63: We got balls of Boing
The BitJam Podcast episode number 63 is about the Amiga demo music. Under the motto "We got balls of Boing" Zeg who is the maintainer of the Amiga demo database BitWorld has collected 15 great music tracks from the world of the Amiga scene.
You can download the BitJam Podcast #63 as MP3. There is also a CUE-file for burning an audio disc. Episode #64 which willl be published on 10.05.2009 then is about the music of the C64-scene.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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03.May.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Online magazine: The Crypt - Issue 55
Die 55th issue of the English online magazine The Crypt includes two further chapters of the tutorial "Hardware access using AmigaBASIC and ARexx".
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 03. May. 2009, 15:32] [Comments: 0]
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03.May.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Paint program Grafx2: Versions for AmigaOS and MorphOS
Additional to the AmigaOS 4 and AROS versions of the paint program Grafx2 there are now versions for AmigaOS/68k and MorphOS as well.
Grafx2 was originally published for MS-DOS similar to Deluxe Paint which is now based on SDL.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.May.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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NetBSD/amiga 5.0 published, NetBSD/ofppc supports Pegasos officially
Already on Wednesday version 5.0 of the operating system NetBSD for Amiga computers was published and can be downloaded under the title link.
Since version 5.0 NetBSD/ofppc supports the Pegasos II officially for the first time.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.May.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AROS: Status-Update May 2009
Simone Bernacchia has summarized the most important improvements of AROS.
- With OWB there is an up-to-date browser
- Pavel "Sonic" Fedin keeps working on the AROS-version "Windows-Hosted".
- Matthias "Mazze" Rustler has published an alpha version of the spreadsheet Ignition
- Nik "Kalamatee" Andrews has added some function to the Workbench replacement Wanderer
- Michal Schulz keeps working on the Efika-port and on a driver for the USB-mass storage. .
- Steve "ClusterUK" Jones, formerly Siamese Systems, offers preconfigured PCs for AROS called "iMica"
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.May.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Status update: Digibooster Professional 3
Press release:
APC&TCP, responsible for the distribution and development of the music software Digibooster Professional 3, wants to give you an overview of the development of the new version as stated on 19th January 2009 in the news.
First of all we have to say that the program is being rewritten from scratch opening new opportunities which haven't been possible with the old sources of Version 2.xx or at least without an unacceptable amount of work. The program structure can be enhanced now and designed with more efficiency in mind.
playback routine
The implementation of the playback routine on the basis of Digibooster Professional version 2.xx in the new version 3 is nearly finished. Smaller effect commands like Sxx (Pitch up/down) or Lxx (setting of envelope position) and the DSP echo effects parameters (Vxx, Wxx, Xxx, Yxx, Zxx) must be implemented yet. Once we have done that the new playback routine will equal to 100% the one of version 2.xx on the new basis.
Moreover the new playback routine will be very portable having a positive effect on the portability to non AmigaOS compatible platforms.
Furthermore the new playback routine will be 100% independent of AHI.
Digibooster Professional 3 GUI
The basic GUI functions like
- trackerraster
- instrument list
- edit options (new, delete, change, ...)
are already implemented.
In addition the programm will run with several tasks (tracker, player, ...).
Visual customization using different skins will be possible too.
Some initial screenshots of the GUI have been released (1
2
3
4
), please keep in mind that these do not show the finished product.
DigiRoller
This external program will enable you to render music files to complete AIFF or WAV files. It will be made available to the community for open testing shortly. Please note that this isn't the final version.
At this point we would like to advise you of the support forum
of Digibooster Professional. Everyone interested in the development and integration of new ideas is welcome to take part at the discussions.
Support-Page
APC&TCP (cg) (Translation: cg)
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02.May.2009
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on the Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months.
All translations are welcome. Please contact David Brunet for more information.
- Amiga/MorphOS news of march/april 2009
- Old news of march/april 1997 (with relatives articles)
- Interview with Mickaël Pernot
- Interview with James Sachs
- Interview with Frank Wille
- Report: presentation of the Amiga at the Lincoln Center of New York
- Review of AmigaOS 4.1
- Review of AmigaOS 4 for Classic
- Review of AmigaOS 4.0 Final Update
- Hardware: AmigaOne G3-SE
- Hardware: AmigaOne PPC 1200/4000
- Hardware: MicroA1-I
- Hardware: AmigaOne XC
- Hardware: PicoA1
- Hardware: Sam440ep (update)
- Hardware: Ranger
- Tutorial: How to start with MorphOS and Pegasos (update)
- Tutorial: Integrate E-UAE in Ambient
- Tutorial: TVPaint - creation of a title in relief and monochromic
- Tutorial: TVPaint - creation of a wooden texture
- Tutorial: Installation of AmigaOS 4 on Classic PowerPC Amiga
- Tutorial: Installation of AmigaOS 4.1 on Pegasos II
- Tutorial: Presentation and configuration of ANAIIS
- Tutorial: Installation of AmigaOS 4 Developer Pre-Release on AmigaOne
- Tutorial: Installation of AmigaOS 4 Developer Pre-Release and Linux Debian on the same harddisk on AmigaOne
- File: Overclocking
- Special quizz about Psygnosis
- Specials quizz about years 2003 and 2004
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01.May.2009
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Realtime strategy games: Stratagus ported
Additional to the MorphOS- and AmigaOS 4-version now the realtime strategy engine Stratagus is also available for AmigaOS 3.x.
Additional to the files of the particular game, version 51.0 of the ixemul.library is required.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Apr.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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IRC-Client: WookieChat 2.12 Beta 1
James 'jahc' Carroll has published another update of his MUI-base IRC-client WookieChat. The changes are listed in the Changelog.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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30.Apr.2009
amiga.org (Webseite)
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AROS-Distribution: Icaros Desktop 1.1.1
Four weeks after the release of the AROS-Distribution Icaros Desktop (formerly "VmwAROS") today an update has been published which updats some system files. Especially the ata.device was improved by Neil Cafferkey. Additionally the update includes the latest version of the Web-browser OWB.
Icaros Desktop 1.1.1 is available in two versions: As update-CD for users which have alteady installed version 1.1 or as complete Live-DVD for new users.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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29.Apr.2009
Martin 'DaFreak' Rebentisch (ANF)
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The history of OS migration
Under the title link Michael Steil has taken a closer look at the change of the processor architecture of some OS of the last three decades. Additional to DOS/Windows, Macintosh and Palm, AmigaOS is also mentioned. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Apr.2009
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Port of the emulator UAE4ALL
Pedro Gil has ported UAE4ALL for MorphOS. Originally it is a port of the Amiga emulator UAE for the game console Dreamcast produced by Sega.
First of all the MorphOS-version (screenshot) is meant for Efika-users because E-UAE only reaches a limited speed on this boards. Optimations will follow.
Download: uae4all_mos.lha (2 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Apr. 2009, 09:42] [Comments: 0]
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29.Apr.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Porting Guide for Dummies 2.0
Spot's Porting Guide for Dummies is available in version 2.0. There is a list of changes under the title link.
Download: spots-pfd.lha (30 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Apr. 2009, 09:10] [Comments: 0]
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26.Apr.2009
PPA (Webseite)
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Cubic IDE: Update of extension for Hollywood applications
Under the title link Michael 'Clyde Radcliffe' Jurisch has published an update of his Cubic-IDE-extension for writing Hollywood-apllications.
This version finally supports the new Hollywood 4.0. Other new features include the ability of redirecting Hollywood's output directly into Cubic containers which turns Cubic into a fully functional IDE for Hollywood. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Apr.2009
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Another interview with Jamie Woodhouse
After PPA (amiga-news.de reported) now gamedev.net has interviewed Jamie Woodhouse which is available under the title link. He wrote games like Qwak, All Terrain Racing and Nitro.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Apr. 2009, 19:08] [Comments: 0]
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25.Apr.2009
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 3.12
Jörg Strohmayer has published an update of his port of the Origyn Web Browser. OWB 3.12 mainly fixes bugs. Further details are listed in the Changelog.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Apr. 2009, 10:53] [Comments: 0]
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25.Apr.2009
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: NetSurf 2.0
NetSurf is a fast browser which was originally developed for RiscOS and which can be used from 17 MB memory on. It supports HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.1. Javascript is still not supported.
After the previous beta version today the complete port of version 2.0 is now available (Changelog).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Apr. 2009, 10:49] [Comments: 0]
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25.Apr.2009
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Software collection MorphOS Files
Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski's download archive for MorphOS software in the MorphZone has moved to limelight.
Under morphos-files.net there is a big source of software just like Aminet as well as meta-morphos.org and Lukas 'Luky' Stehlik's link collection.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Apr. 2009, 07:09] [Comments: 0]
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24.Apr.2009
Pegasosforum.de (Forum)
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MorphOS: GTK-Wrapper-Bounty started
Based on 2005 finished and extended GTK-MUI-Wrapper for AROS written by Oliver Brunner now Stefan Kleinheinrich has started the MorphOS-implementation. The current status of donations is 85 Euro.
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24.Apr.2009
Forumsbewohner (ANF)
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a1k.org: Prototype pictures of Indivision ECS
Under the title link some pictures were published of a prototype of the Flickerfixer Indivision ECS (amiga-news.de reported).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Apr.2009
BitWorld (ANF)
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Demo scene: BitWorld-archive gained more than 22.000 entries
The demo scene collection BitWorld has listed more than 22.000 Amiga entries. On that score the maintainer of the website want to thank all helpful collectors as well as 'Cygnus' who since 1997 put his computer at amigascne.org disposal.
The archive contains:
- Over 22.000 entries
- Over 2.200 Crack-Intros with detailed information
- Over 4.000 different demopacks
- Over 20.000 different linked music tracks
- Over 20.000 pictures of productions
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Apr.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Pictures of older Amiga fairs
There are new, "old" pictures of fairs on the Amiga Future website:
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23.Apr.2009
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Little test report: AmigaOS 4-/-Windows-Shooter "BOH"
A reader of amiga.org has tested the Windows-version of the recently announced shooter BOH and written a little test report.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Apr. 2009, 13:27] [Comments: 0]
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23.Apr.2009
eisblock (ANF)
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Commodore C64p - Do-it-yourself-C64-Laptop
Under the title link Benjamin Heckendorn has introduced his self-made laptop of a C64.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Apr. 2009, 06:29] [Comments: 0]
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22.Apr.2009
Martin Rebentisch (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #108
Martin 'DaFreak' Rebentisch wrote: The scene group Liquid Skies has published its 108th "Musikpack". This time it includes a song called "Infection" composed by Lcr and finished by Kuadziw. It is a kind of psychedelic Trance. The cover was created by Mitglied Kuadziw.
This song is available under the title link:
- Title: Infection
- Artist: Lcr feat. Kuadziw
- Style: Psychedelic
- Play time: 3:51
- Format: mp3 @ 160 kbps
- Size: 4,5 MB (ZIP-compressed)
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22.Apr.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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FFmpeg 0.5 (SVN r18602)
Piotr Bandurski has compiled the latest version of the video converter FFmpeg for AmigaOS. It is required a 68020-processor with FPU as well as the ixemul.library. The Amiga version of the playback program FFplay is not included because it is still not stable.
Download: ffmpeg-svnr180602-m68k.lha (3 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Apr. 2009, 18:37] [Comments: 0]
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22.Apr.2009
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Network printer: netprinter.device 1.14 (AmigaOS 3/MorphOS)
Guido Mersmann's netprinter.device supports the LPR-protocol and allows printing over the network.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Apr.2009
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: StarDict 3.0.0 for AmiCygnix
For his X11-environment AmiCygnix Edgar Schwan has published a port of StarDict 3.0.0.
StarDict is a cross-platform and international dictionary based on the GUI-Toolkit GTK2. It is an ideal addition to
text processing program like AbiWord (screenshot) or the mailer Sylpheed.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Apr. 2009, 16:30] [Comments: 0]
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21.Apr.2009
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Port of Linux-hosted-version on ARM started
Alex Perez has started the bounty project which should adapt the open-source operating system AROS under Linux to the ARM-processor architecture.
The chosen destination hardware is the Beagleboard.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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20.Apr.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Lzip 1.5
Lzip is a compiled compressor for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4 and AROS which is based on the LZMA-algorithm. It is supposed to be as almost fast as gzip and does compress much better than bzip2.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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20.Apr.2009
Schlonz (ANF)
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MorphOS: 7-Zip 4.65
The compression software 7-Zip is available for MorphOS in version 4.65 which includes bug fixes as well as higher speed.
The archive includes the command line based compressors 7za and 7zr as well as the complete source code, a Deficon, the script Compress7z for creating 7z-archives and an updated filetype which uses Chris Young's 68k-7z-XAD-client as standard application if you have copied it to LIBS:XAD/ before.
With the client you can use 7z-archives just like Read-only-directories which allows you to extract single files which is still not completely stable and which is a little bit slow.
Download page
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Apr. 2009, 22:06] [Comments: 0]
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20.Apr.2009
a1k.org (Forum)
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Cracktros.org: Website updated
On Cracktros.org which offers a collection of Cracker-Intros for the Amiga several Cracktros as well as videos have been added. The maintainers thank all for the ratings - single Intros gained over 700.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Apr. 2009, 22:00] [Comments: 0]
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20.Apr.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Preview of issue 78 online
Press release The preview and excerpts of the Amiga Future 78 (May/Juni) are online now. In this issue you'll find reviews of the recent version of AmigaOS 4 on SAMflex, Hollywood 4, SRec, VIM and many more.
On the Amiga Future cover CD you always find lots of PD software and some full versions like Foundation and others. A more detailed description of contents and some excerpts can be found at the title link.
The Amiga Future is available as a English or German print magazine directly from the editorial office and some Amiga dealers. The Amiga Future can be obtained as a single issue and subscription each with or without a cover CD.
We ask all users interested in this magazine to order it as soon as possible. (snx)
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19.Apr.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Mini-ITX-Minimig 2.0 finished
Already end of March Peter Czidlina announced the completion of version 2.0 of his Minimig-variant in ITX-format.
The ARM-based harddrive emulation hardware has been not integrated on the board but can be used with the Mini-ITX-Minimig 2.0.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Apr. 2009, 08:00] [Comments: 0]
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19.Apr.2009
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 3.11
Jörg Strohmayer has published another update of his port of the Origyn Web Browser. OWB 3.11 includes improved rendering and new graphic elements designed by Martin 'Mason' Merz. The further changes are listed in the Changelog.
Download: OWB.lha (12 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Apr. 2009, 07:15] [Comments: 0]
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18.Apr.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Gnash-Port Bounty
Under the title link on amigabounty.net you can donate for an AmigaOS-4.1-port of the Flash-Player Gnash.
Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmatè has started this project and is going to finish it until 1st March 2010. The current status of the donations account is 56 Euro.
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16.Apr.2009
Pegasosforum (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Origyn Web Browser 1.2
Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly has published a new version of the Origyn Web Browser. The changes are listed in the Readme-file.
As before three different versions are available. Additional to the normal version with all functions there are two other versions which require less memory: OWB-nosvg (no support of the SVG-format) and OWB-lite (no support of SVG, only UTF-8 and European codepages).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 16. Apr. 2009, 09:22] [Comments: 0]
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15.Apr.2009
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Texteditor: NoWinED 0.78
NoWinED is a MUI-based Texteditor for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and AROS. The changes are listed in the Changelog.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 15. Apr. 2009, 15:09] [Comments: 0]
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15.Apr.2009
amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: SDL 1.2.13
Peter "Xeron" Gordon has published an update of the multimedia library SDL. SDL is supposed to make it more easy developing portable applications and which is used by several Open-Source games.
Changes in version 1.2.13:
- Merged the OS4 support into the 1.2.13 codebase
- Only requests a stencil buffer from MiniGL if required (Hans De Ruiter)
- Added support for CD-ROM
- Compiled with GCC 4.2.4 and the latest SDK
- Bad SDL programs that don't explicitly close all opened joysticks
before calling SDL_Quit() no longer hang on exit (like Giddy3... oops :)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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15.Apr.2009
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AmigaOS 4.1: Discount for Pegasos-II-version
Currently at least two traders offer the Pegasos-II-version of AmigaOS 4.1 for a reduced price of 99 Euro.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 15. Apr. 2009, 14:03] [Comments: 0]
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14.Apr.2009
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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AROS for AmigaOS: AfA 4.4
Bernd Rösch's "AROS für AmigaOS" (AfA) is a port of single AROS-components to AmigaOS 3 to make avaiable the new functionality of AROS under AmigaOS as well. Changes in version 4.4:
- Bug fixed: Screen title line is now shown correctly if skins are used (MUI,Filemaster)
- Bug fixed: Pictures of NewInstaller are shown correctly
- Enforcer Hit solved in the function DeletePool
- Version strings of AfA_OS_Libs and AfA_Prefs corrected and added a version string to AfA_OS_Loader
- The Residentmodul morelibspace_module was added to the archive in the directory "Optional/Devs/" for using it with BlizKick, Loadmodule or the flash of the DENEB USB card
- Update of the zune_lib.exe to the latest beta
- Installer script upgraded for an optional installation of
morelibspace_module
- Documentation updated
Direct download: AfA_OS_V4.4.lha (1,6 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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14.Apr.2009
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 3.10
Jörg Strohmayer has published an update of his port of the Origyn Web Browser. In OWB 3.10 some bugs were fixed. Additionally the file download was completely new implemented and Font-families and alias are supported. The further changes are listed in the Changelog.
Direct download: OWB.lha (11,6 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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13.Apr.2009
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: eMail-program Sylpheed 2.6.0 for AmiCygnix
Edgar Schwan has published a port of the GTK-base eMail-program Sylpheed for his X11-environment AmiCygnix (Screenshot). Sylpheed supports the IMAP4 protocol which currently is not available at different Amiga mail programs. Features of the program:
- Supported protocols:
- POP3 / APOP
- IMAP4rev1
- SMTP / SMTP AUTH
- NNTP (News)
- SSL / TLSv1 (POP3, SMTP, IMAP4rev1, NNTP)
- Multiple accounts
- Sorting in threads
- Newsreader
- Print function
- Address book
- Templates
- Support of external editors
- Filter functions
- Search functions
- User configured toolbar
- Marks and colour tags
- and much more...
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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13.Apr.2009
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Vector graphic program MOS-Creator 0.6
MOS-Creator written by Carsten Siegner is a vector graphic program implemented with Hollywood (screenshot). Mainly with this program you can create and print PDF-documents - similar to the graphicpublisher from the TurboPrint package.
New in version 0.6:
- MOS-Creator was now compiled and compressed with Hollywood 4.0
- The scaleengine of Hollywood 4.0 is active. It is now possible to scale
the window of MOS-Creator in realtime.
Download: mos-creator_0.6.lha (2,7 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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13.Apr.2009
Amiga.org (website)
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PDF magazine: AmigaHellas #11 (greek)
Issue 11 (April 2009) of the greek PDF magazine AmigaHellas has been published at the title link. The editors are open to translate single articles into English in case enough interest is gathered.
Content:
- Report from the recent "Amigathering X" event, held in Volos. Plus several photos of course
- Ultimate A1200 mod, part 2. We continue with the next chapter of what we believe to be, the ultimate A1200 mod. Fit a PPC accelerator, BVision, HDD and optical drives in the original Amiga box, without a meltdown
- Video and presentations on the Amiga. A new series of articles, provided by an expert on the field
- Music on the Amiga, part 2. Continued after the last issue
- A600 GRL project. The A600 was the smallest Amiga ever built. Someone decided that it wasn't small enough. The GRL (GReek Laptop) project was born. Read it all here
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12.Apr.2009
Patrick Nevian (ANF)
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Ambermoon Arcade - 030 speed test demo
Patrick Nevian's "Ambermoon Arcade" is supposed to become a Rastan-clone which plays in the world of Ambermoon (screenshots: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Meanwhile Nevian has published a speed test demo of the third level. Since the EHB-colour mode is used Ambermoon Arcade requires a 68030-CPU. According to the author the slowdowns at the beginning of the demo have been already fixed in the current version of the game. Besides this the opponents do not vanish in the game but lie on the ground.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 12. Apr. 2009, 19:55] [Comments: 0]
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12.Apr.2009
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Picture viewer: LookHere 1.1
Fabio Falcucci's "LookHere!" is a picture viewer created with Hollywood 4.0 (screenshot). LookHere! offers over 100 of different effects as well as thumbnail and slideshow modes and is available for all Amiga operating systems. Changes in version 1.1:
- New languages available: German and French (thanks to Murakami for the franch translation and Michael Jurisch & Peat1980 for german translation)
- Now LookHere! remembers all the switch settings, window positions and selected language
- Added a manual in pdf format
- Removed flickering in the thumbnail mode
- Removed useless Gui refresh in thumbnail mode
- Added a status bar in slide shw mode
- Added the following key support in slide show mode:
- SPACE, RIGHT: Move to the next image
- LEFT: Move to the previous image
- 1-9: Set the pause between images (in seconds)
- 0: Disable the slide show timer (pause/unpause the slide show)
- S: Show/Hide the status bar
- F: Toggles transition effects
- Fixed various minor bugs
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 12. Apr. 2009, 19:45] [Comments: 0]
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11.Apr.2009
Amiga.org (website)
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Cubic IDE: Find the Easter eggs
Press release On Easter Sunday, starting 8:00 GMT, several Easter eggs will be hidden on the Cubic IDE web site. Find an egg (example) and revceive a free Cubic IDE development package (CD ISO download). (snx)
[News message: 11. Apr. 2009, 06:59] [Comments: 0]
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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)
[News message: 10. Apr. 2009, 14:31] [Comments: 0]
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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)
[News message: 10. Apr. 2009, 02:44] [Comments: 0]
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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)
[News message: 08. Apr. 2009, 19:41] [Comments: 0]
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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.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 08. Apr. 2009, 15:54] [Comments: 0]
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07.Apr.2009
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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)
[News message: 07. Apr. 2009, 15:13] [Comments: 0]
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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)
[News message: 07. Apr. 2009, 15:10] [Comments: 0]
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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)
[News message: 05. Apr. 2009, 18:50] [Comments: 0]
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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)
[News message: 05. Apr. 2009, 16:22] [Comments: 0]
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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)
[News message: 05. Apr. 2009, 10:04] [Comments: 0]
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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)
[News message: 04. Apr. 2009, 09:15] [Comments: 0]
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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)
[News message: 02. Apr. 2009, 20:29] [Comments: 0]
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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)
[News message: 02. Apr. 2009, 16:00] [Comments: 0]
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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)
[News message: 02. Apr. 2009, 15:49] [Comments: 0]
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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)
[News message: 02. Apr. 2009, 15:38] [Comments: 0]
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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.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 01. Apr. 2009, 11:05] [Comments: 0]
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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)
[News message: 01. Apr. 2009, 10:45] [Comments: 0]
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