21.Nov.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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UAE: AmiKit 1.5.2
AmiKit which is a complete distribution for UAE-users is now available in version 1.5.2 and should be installed with the live-update function. Furthermore there is a download mirror.
The changes are listed in the changelog.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Nov.2008
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MorphOS: MPlayer 1.0-svn-2008.11.09
Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly has published an update of his MorphOS-port of the media player MPlayer (screenshot). Changes in this version:
- Updated to 09.11.2008 svn (r27902). To be noted it at least fixes some recently introduced issue with some mpeg4 files (googlevideo for instance).
- More work on GUI module:
- Option to resize window to original movie dimensions (or 50%/200%).
- Record option to dump a netstream (only works for cached streams for now).
- Directories can now be dropped to main window/playlists, or opened from menu.
- Shuffle option in playlist.
- Metadata title field is displayed in status string, if available
- ICY information (shoutcast) displayed in status string, if available.
- Some files would sometimes be skipped in playlist. Fixed.
- Reworked a bit GUI show/hide behaviour.
- GUI can now be started in fullscreen (-fs/fs=1)
- Status string was refreshed more than necessary.
- General fixes:
- Increased a bit audio buffer length with ao_ahi driver.
- There could be some "hickup at start" effect when playing a new file in playlist. Fixed.
- Snapshot filenames are truncated (if necessary) to preserve indexes.
Download:
Standard-Version: MPlayer-1.0-svn-2008.11.09.lha (9,1 MB)
Altivec-Version: MPlayer-1.0-svn-2008.11.09.altivec.lha (9,2 MB)
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21.Nov.2008
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 2.15
Jörg Strohmayer has published a new version of his port of the Origyn Web Browser (screenshot). The Cairo-library has been linked with the program. That means OWB 2.15 can be also used under AmigaOS 4.0 again. The changes in detail:
- The CONFIRMQUIT tooltype was only checked for the quit menu but not
for the close menu when the last window is closed, fixed (bugs.os4depot.net issue #44)
- Using version 2.7.1 of libxml2 instead of 2.7.2 again, should fix some
crashes
- Built the current versions of libcairo and libpixman-1 as static link
libraries, with the static libraries OWB works on AmigaOS 4.0 again.
- OWB 2.15 is linked with static libraries. Might fix the startup
crashes I never get on my systems, but could cause even more crashes
since most of the static versions of the libraries I have are older
than the shared versions and very likely have more bugs.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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20.Nov.2008
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Amiga/Hyperion: Conciliation conference
Today representatives of Amiga Inc., Hyperion and Eyetech have met for a conciliation conference in Seattle. The aim of the conference is a settlement out-of-court but that does not have to mean the end of the legal dispute. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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20.Nov.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Quake 3-clone OpenArena 0.8.1
OpenArena is an open source clone of the well-known 3D-shooter Quake 3 which uses the free Quake 3-sources and adds own levels, figures and sound effects. The AmigaOS-version was ported by Juha "Capehill" Niemimäki.
Download: openarena.lha (794 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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19.Nov.2008
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphZone: MorphBounties active again
David 'Targhan' Crawford, who is the Webmaster of the MorphOS portal MorphZone, has announced that the bounty-program for MorphOS is active again.
Meanwhile another bounty-program of the Pegasosforum was established. It might happen that both projects will be united in future. Up to this moment please donate for either the first or the second project. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Nov.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Cinnamon Writer 0.60
Claus Desler's Cinnamon Writer is a SDL-based word processor for AmigaOS 4. The programmer wants to write a compact, effective word processor with most of the usual functions.
Changes:
- Unlimited undo/redo history
- Introduction of the plug-in system
- Changeable page size and format
- Resizeable window
- Big fat donate button
- Online-check if user has the newest version
- Bugfixes
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Nov.2008
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Event: Photos of AmiWest 2008
Robert Bernardo from the Fresno Commodore User Group has taken some pictures during the Californian Amiga event AmiWest 2008 and have published them under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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18.Nov.2008
NovaBurst (ANF)
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Interview with AROS developer Stanislaw Szymczyk
For his blog "The AROS Show", Paul J. Beel did an interview with Stanisław Szymczyk. Among other topics, he discusses his work on the AROS Self-Compilation bounty, his fascination with computers and plans for the future. (snx)
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18.Nov.2008
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Booklet of CSG-auction 1994
CSG ("Commodore Semiconductor Group") were responsible for the design and the production of alsmost all chips which were used in Commodore computers.
In 1992 the company had to apply for creditor protection but was only bought after the decline of Commodore in 1994. You can find scans of a booklet of this CSG-auction under the title link.
You can get further (English) information about MOS Technology/CSG under commodore.ca.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.Nov.2008
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MorphOS: Diagram creator Plot 1.7
Plot is a MUI-class with an example program written by Grzegorz "krashan" Kraszewski and Michal "rzookol" Zukowski with which you can create diagrams (screenshot).
The latest version can export data and diagrams in ODS-format of OpenOffice.org.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.Nov.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Amiga Arena: New "old" full versions of applications
The section "Tools" of the Amiga Arena was opened again and will be filled with full versions of applications which could be already downloaded in the past. The first applications are Alphabase, AmiFIG, ArtEffect 1.5, ArtPro, F-Base, FileX, FLM, HippoPlayer, Lotto and MuiVideo.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.Nov.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmiKit: WinUAE-Updater
For the emulator distribution AmiKit an Add-On is available which will automatically update WinUAE which is included in the archive.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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15.Nov.2008
PPA (Webseite)
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File system: Ext2FS 0.36
With Marek Szyprowski's Ext2FS you can work with the Second Extended FileSystem (ext2) and ext3 under MorphOS and AmigaOS 3.x.
Version 0.36 includes an experimental support of some extensions which are used by Ext3-media which were created with the Linux distribution Fedora Core. Additionally the DOS-notofication is now supported (ACTION_ADD_NOTIFY / ACTION_REMOVE_NOTIFY).
Download: ext2fs_0.36.lha (95 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Nov.2008
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 2.14 / OWB Address Book 2.2
Jörg Strohmayer has published a new version of his port of the Origyn Web Browser. Please note that Cairo is required which currently is only available for AmigaOS 4.1.
The address book was also updated and is no longer part of the browser archive.
Changes in OWB 2.14:
- Removed the AddressBook from the OWB archive, it's available on os4depot.net now (network/browser/owbaddressbook.lha)
- Updated to SVN revision 641
- Added support for openamiga.org extended default mouse pointers http://openamiga.org/?function=viewproject&projectid=35 (bugs.os4depot.net issue #40) and moved the included pointers to Resources/Storage, except for contextMenuCursor which is missing in the openamiga.org project. If you want to use the included pointers instead of the openamiga.org ones, or own pointers, you have to put them into the Resources directory
- Fixed a bug in the AutoInstall script
- Built current versions of libxml2 and libxslt
- If the CONFIRMQUIT tooltype is enabled it displays a requester when using the quit menu as well now (bugs.os4depot.net issue #44)
- Added GETURL ARexx command
- If there is a 2nd %s in the BOOKMARKCOMMAND it's replaced by the pubscreen name of the screen on which the OWB window is now
Download:
owb.lha (6 MB)
owbaddressbook.lha (1 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Nov.2008
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Windows/Linux: AmigaDOS Amiga Disk File Checker
With ADFCHK ("AmigaDOS Amiga Disk File Checker") you can check if Amiga-Disk-Images have checksum errors or simple bootblock viruses ("LAMER" is already recognized, "boot-lamer" will follow).
The tool is mainly meant for using in batch files where you want to check many files. There are three corresponding .BAT-scripts for Windows users. The "menu-modus" is still in a very early developing status.
Linux users have to compile ADFCHK for yourself. All required parts are included in the source code archive.
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14.Nov.2008
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Voting to "Innovation Price 2008" of CGG
The Dutch "Commodore Gebruikers Groep" (CGG) endows the Innovation Price 2008 for the best product or the best developer at its last meeting this year. The winner will be found by a voting on the website of CGG. The price will be given at the "C=Show" on 20. December.
You can access the voting by clicking on the photos of the trophy.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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14.Nov.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: SabreMSN Alpha 35
James 'jahc' Carroll has published another update of his Instant Messenger for the MSN-network for AmigaOS 3 and AmigaOS 4 (screenshot). The changes are listed in the changelog.
The author points out that SabreMSN currently only supports the older version of the MSN-protocol for the data exchange. If an incoming transfer is displayed ("Waiting for incoming file..") but it will not start then the sender used the new version of the protocol.
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13.Nov.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Amitopia TV: November issue with report from Bad Bramstedt
Amitopia TV is an English video magazine about the Amiga. Issue November inludes a report about the Amiga meeting in Bad Bramstedt (Germany). Additionally there are Amiga news and information from the demo scene. The magazine is hosted as FLV movies at Google Video and Vimeo.
Because there is not a corresponding server, the "download"-version with 333 MB currently is only available as E-Mail. Interested users may contact amitopia@gmail.com. If you have possibilities to host Amitopia files with a size of 200-400 MB then please write to the same email address. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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13.Nov.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: PFTP 0.4
Pete's FTP (screenshot) written by Peter Gordon has been published in version 0.4. The changes in detail:
- When you couldn't connect to a server, PFTP would
hang. Fixed.
- Icon is now a proper Amiga icon. Didn't realise it
was png because i have the png iconmodule installed
and i just copied over the file i got from Mason
and forgot about it.
- Now copes with servers that include a total number
of files with the file listing at the top. Thanks
to Magnus Andersson for his help with this one.
- Now doesn't crash if you click a link in the about
window without OpenURL installed.
- The local browser thread didn't properly keep track
of how many messages it was expecting a reply for,
and could sometimes hang around waiting for
responses it had already received. Fixed.
- If you started some local-to-local transfers, and
one of them failed for any reason, the ones after
it wouldn't start. Fixed.
- Local-to-local transfers that had a read or write
error during transfer were treated as if they
succeeded. Fixed.
- If a transfer failed, it would be silently added to
the failed transfer list, and an error message
printed in the log. This is easily missed during
bulk transfers. Now there is an error log for errors
that occur during transfers, which pops up to let you
know something went wrong. Items in bold are new
ones since the last time the error log window was
closed. Thanks to Mario Cattaneo for making me get
around to this finally :)
- Improved the error handling and detection for SFTP.
- If you selected more than one directory, but no files,
and deleted them, only the first one would be deleted.
Fixed. (Thanks to Janne Peräaho for the report).
- If you deleted a directory, but no files, the browser
wouldn't be refreshed aftwards. Fixed. (Thanks to Janne
Peräaho for the report).
- Added a debug menu to make it easier to find and
fix faults that i can't reproduce
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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13.Nov.2008
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MorphOS: HivelyTracker 1.6
HivelyTracker is a tracker based on the AHX-format. AHX was developed in the 90ies being able to write music tracks which are similar to the typical chip sound of the SID (sound chip of the C64).
"BuZz" which already ported the OS4-version to AROS and AmigaOS 3 has now published a port for MorphOS as well.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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12.Nov.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Atari-Emulator Hatari 1.0.31
Hatari is a SDL-based Atari-ST emulator. The changes in version 1.0.31 are included in the readme-file.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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12.Nov.2008
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Word Me Up XXL 1.1
The game "Word Me Up XXL" developed by Boing Attitude combines arcade and puzzle elements and is available for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS now in version 1.1 . The update is free for registered users. Additionally there is a demo version with foru of the 60 levels.
Changes:
- Design and graphical arts enhancements (5 themes were fully reworked, 4 others were improved)
- Faster loading and effects on subsidiary screens: "dark" effect, "Shop" and "Digicode" screens
- Automatic handling of next level (if you didn't collect enough money or keys, previous level is displayed again)
- An improved setup tool: joystick port setting (already included in previous MorphOS release), musics pre-loading, online help
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11.Nov.2008
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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AC3-Encoder (MUI-GUI for aften)
AC3-Encoder is a simple, MUI-based graphical user-interface for the command line program aften.
Additionally to RxMUI and ARexx, version 13.0.0 or higher of sox (sox-13.0.0.lha, 1 MB; MorphOS version) must be installed to create 5-channel-wave-files which aften requires.
All wave-files must be available in the format mono / 16 Bit / 48000 Hz and must not be compressed. The AC3-file is created with 448 Kbit and therefore corresponds the standard-AC3-streams of DVDs.
ac3encoder.lha (12 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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11.Nov.2008
Martin Merz (ANF)
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Amiga Image Storage System: Service-Release AISS 4.5
Version 4.5 of the Amiga Image Storage System (AISS), a system to store, access and maintain toolbar images under AmigaOS and alternative systems, is available now at Masonicons.de.
Highlights:
- 353 new and 169 reworked images
- Optimized installation script by Thore Boeckelmann
Please note that the installation process may take some time and no progress requester will be displayed. (snx)
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11.Nov.2008
amigans.net (Webseite)
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dnetc-client with OGR-26-support
Oliver Roberts has published the latest version of the dnetc-client provided by distributed.net for different AmigaOS-versions which supports the OGR-26 as well. There is also a MorphOS-port which was written by Harry "Piru" Sintonen.
Direct download:
AmigaOS 3: dnetc507-amigaos-68k.lha (658 KB)
AmigaOS 4: dnetc507b-amigaos-ppc.lha (780 KB)
WarpOS: dnetc507-amigaos-ppc-wos.lha (666 KB)
PowerUp: dnetc507-amigaos-ppc-pup.lha (674 KB)
dnetc507b-morphos-ppc.lha (715 KB)
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11.Nov.2008
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AmigaOS 4: WarpOS-emulation 16.40 with Sam440-support
Jörg Strohmayer's WarpOSEmu is a reimplementation of the powerpc.library. With it you can start WarpOS-applications under AmigaOS 4. The former versions of the wrapper do not work with the Sam440. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.Nov.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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OctaMED SoundStudio V2: Programmer wanted
For OctaMED SoundStudio which is the first 8-channel-tracker a programmer is wanted who develops the old Amiga version 1.03c further. Version 2.0 muste be finished during the next year.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.Nov.2008
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Aminet: Web-uploads possible again
Press release: Uploads to the Aminet are now with the browser possible. We are sorry for the long period of breakdown.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Nov.2008
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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MorphOS: Harddrive encryption with DIL 1.50
DIL ("Device Intervention Layer") written by Rupert Hausberger adds new virtual drives to the system which represent images of a real existing drives (or devices). If you access to such a virtual device the data stream will be changed, encrypted or controled in this way and only then the data stream will be delivered to the real drive.
With AES.dilp there is a new plugin which makes the encryption of the harddrive at the lowlevel base with AES possible. The
changes in version 1.50 im detail:
dil.device (1.50)
- Added support for SHA256 so plugins can now request that seed-type.
- Added plugin-tags DILI_SeedDIL and DILI_SeedSHA to specify the
seed-type used.
- Now to passphrase-request window does popup another time if the user
did a wrong input.
- Fixed typo DILI_Licence to DILI_License.
- Changed the DIL_SANEID, all plugins need a rebuild.
- Bumped dilplugin.h to 1.2
dilPlugInfo (1.2)
- Added plugin status, whether working with the installed version of DIL.
- Added plugin tags DILI_SeedDIL and DILI_SeedSHA.
Plugins:
- aes.dilp (1.00): Initial.
- blockmon.dilp (1.12)
- default.dilp (1.12)
- poly.dilp (1.12): Rebuild with new DIL_SANEID.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Nov.2008
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Emulator: UAE for Nintendo Wii
Based on UAE4ALL under the title link a first beta version of the Amiga emulator UAE for the game console Nintendo Wii was published.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.Nov.2008
Andrea Maniero (#morphos)
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Event: AIConf on 6. December in Papozze (Italy)
On 6. December Radicadesign together with the local municipality will organize an event for alternative computer systems called AIConf (Alternative Italian Conference) in the sport arena of Papozze in Italy.
There will be present AmigaOS 4.1 and the Sam440ep-flex-Board, MorphOS and the Efika-Board as well as Haiku and Ubuntu.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Nov.2008
Franz (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE 1.5.3
The latest version of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE includes optimizations for RTG-applications, some minor improvements of the chipset emulation and offers you the possibility to link certain file types (*.adf, *.uae...) with the emulator. The changes in WinUAE 1.5.3 in detail:
Fixed bugs:
- Huge memory leak when switching between RTG and native modes.
- Writing to disk images didn't work in some games.
- Configuration cache missing files in subdirectories.
- Random freeze when switching to fullscreen modes that are smaller
than desktop resolution.
- Second and third mouse/firebutton handling fix (Aladdin, BC.Kid
and more)
- "Always on top", "No taskbar button" and fullscreen color depth
change works on the fly.
- OpenGL fullscreen fixed.
- Parallel/Serial/MIDI select menus and Input-panel bottom options
didn't work correctly.
- System clock run slightly too fast or slow if chipset refresh rate
was different than startup refresh rate (really old bug).
- OCS NTSC configuration defaulted to PAL refresh rate.
- Real PCMCIA SRAM card re-insert detection fixed.
- Fullscreen RTG 16-bit to 32-bit desktop windowed mode switch
(CTRL+F12) color errors fixed.
New features:
- Basic file association settings added to GUI (.uae, .adf etc..)
- RTG vertical blank wait uses interrupts, no more busy waiting. Should
improve performance in many fullscreen RTG games.
- Added RTG virtual refresh rate configuration to GUI.
- Added RTG refresh rate next to chipset refresh rate FPS counter.
- Undocumented OCS "scanline" feature emulated (Ode to Ramon I and II)
- Midline resolution change improvements (still far from perfect,
Disposable Hero, Innovation Part 2)
- Only accept current latest OpenAL32.dll or newer (old versions can
cause crashes during device enumeration)
- Improved emulation of reads from write-only custom registers
(S.E.X. / Fantasys)
- Syncronize Clock stability improved.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Nov.2008
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ACube will attend Electronica 2008
According to ACube the company will take part in the Electronica 2008 (11. to 14. November, Munich).
The Sam440 and AmigaOS 4.1 will be presented live. All Amiga users are very welcome.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Nov.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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HivelyTracker 1.6
HivelyTracker is a tracker based on the AHX-format. AHX was developed in the 90ies to write music tracks which are similar to the typical chip-sound of SID (sound-chip of C64).
Changes:
- Right since 1.0, the EDx command was broken! Fixed
- The range check on Cxx commands was broken. Fixed
- Now strips the upper nibble of 4xx instrument commands when loading a THX\0 file. AHX always did this since the introduction of filters (THX\1), but AFAIK WinAHX and its derivatives never did
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Nov.2008
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Anubis OS: AROS-developers start new, Amiga-inspired operating system
Some active as well as former AROS-developers want to write a new operating system.
Anubis OS (still empty homepage) is not a Fork that means a branch of AROS because for lack of ressources no compatibility to AmigaOS 3.1 is aimed. Instead of it the Linux-based operating system is supposed to be inspired of AmigaOS. Because many of the developers will be no longer availble for AROS it might yet represent a disunion of the AROS-project.
There will be a first ISO-file with the developing status of Anubis OS around New Year. Mainly Anubis OS will be supposed to represent like Apple's Fusion of Mac OS and BSD to Mac OS X but based on AmigaOS and Linux. A main focus will be an easy to use user-interface. So the Linux basis will provide the functionality (e.g. 2D and 3D graphic drivers) but the user-interface will be inspired by Amiga.
The following AROS-developers are involved: Michal Schulz, Hogne Titlestad, Ola Jensen, Robert Norris, Michael Grunditz, Oliver Brunner, Olivier Tigreat, Pavel Fedin, Stanisław Szymczyk and Paul J. Beel. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Nov.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-magazine: APoV (Amiga Point of View) issue 3
APoV is an English game magazine which is about old Amiga games and which is published in PDF-format. The third issue includes the following topics:
- Reviews of... Disposable Hero, Navy Seals, The Lord of the Rings, War in Middle Earth, Tiny Troops, Rock Star Ate My Hamster, Palace's Barbarian, Paperboy, Onslaught, Total Carnage and P.D. games.
- Articles about... The history of Britain through Amiga games, the demo scene and football on the Amiga.
- Walkthroughs, Hints And Maps... Zak McKracken Part 3, Titanic Blinky, The Final Battle and Elvira: The Arcade Game
- Also... News, mini-articles, WHDLoad, letters, adverts, back page
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08.Nov.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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OnyxSoft: AllKeys 2.3 and MultiRen 1.66
The OnyxSoft team has published two updates, AllKeys 2.3 and MultiRen 1.66. The first one is based on requests and bug reports of users. If you have further requests or suggestions then please do not hesitate to contact the developers.
AllKeys is a hotkey program for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS which supports most of the multimedia and mouse keys. Additional to minor bug fixes version 2.3 supports different subclasses. Because of this some USB-keyboards should work much better.
MultiRen is a MUI-based Amiga/68k-program with which you can rename many files at once. It also includes a special plugin for MP3-files. In version 1.66 a plugin for ID3v2-tags was added. Additionally the file requester follows the corresponding windows where MultiRen has been opened. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Nov.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AROS: Standardization of compiler packages
Based on the work of Markus Weiss and Nic Andrews, Stanislaw Szymczyk has unitized the AROS-compiler packages for all AROS-platforms (i386, ppc, x86_64) for gcc 4.2.2 and has integrated them to the AROS-Build-Systems.
This new package is included in the i386-Nightly-Builds and in this way provides a ready-made C/C++-developing environment. Stanislaw Szymczyk currently is working on the self-compiling bounty project which has 415 US-Dollar.
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08.Nov.2008
David Brunet (ANF)
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Interview with Rabah Shihab (Babylonian Twins)
The online-magazine Obligement has published an exclusive interview with Rabah Shihab today, the lead programmer of Babylonian Twins - an Amiga game which is supposed to have been the first commercial one developed in Iraq.
The english version of the interview can be found at the title link, a french translation will be published later. (snx)
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07.Nov.2008
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Papyrus Office: Timeout-Requester forces new update
From the beginning of the month owners of the office package Papyrus have been welcomed with a message window that says that this beta version will expire.
According to Michael Garlich from Titan on pegasosforum.de there will be an additional update which will not include this timeout requester. But there will not be a MorphOS-native version of this update because the computer of the external developer as well as the Pegasos of the company do not work.
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07.Nov.2008
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ACube: Scope of delivery of AmigaOS 4.1
Some purchasers of AmigaOS 4.1 reported of copied manuals and burned CDs while others got a complete set with box, printed manual and proper CD (photo). Now Massimiliano "m3x" Tretene from ACube Systems explained in a discussion on amigaworld.net:
"We never sent photocopied manuals nor copied CDs to resellers or end users.
It was just a measure a few resellers took to minimize delivery time to customers (there was a delay printing the CDs)". (cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Nov.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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SAM440-presentation at the Electronica 2008 (Munich)
Press release: Thanks to our partner DENX Computer Systems GmbH the Sam440ep and Sam440ep-flex-motherboards will be presented at the trade fair Electronica 2008 which will take place from 11. to 14. November in Munich.
The Sam440ep was added to the online catalog of Denx.
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06.Nov.2008
pegasosforum.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: MPlayer with graphical user-interface
Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly has published a new version of his MorphOS-port of the media player MPlayer which for the first time has now a MUI-based, graphical user-interface (screenshot).
Download:
Standard-Version: MPlayer-1.0-svn-2008.11.05-gui.lha (4,4 MB)
Altivec-optimized: MPlayer-1.0-svn-2008.11.05-gui.altivec.lha (4,5 MB)
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06.Nov.2008
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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Keyboard adapter: Lyra2 with support for MMKeyboard-Stealth protocol
Press release: The company Individual Computers produces a new keyboard adapter called Lyra2 which supports the MMKeyboard Stealth protocol and thus is compatible to the former reference, the MMKeyboard hardware.
With this new adapter you can use standard PS/2-keyboards with classic Amiga computers. Lyra2 is the only hardware which officially supports the MMKeyboard Stealth protocol and thus supports all available multimedia keys with the MMKeyboard software.
The adapter is very compact and stout. With its long wire it is als an extension and prevents the port from damaging by components.
Guido Mersmann, MMKeyboard-Author
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05.Nov.2008
Sébastien Jeudy (ANF)
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SAM440: "The Red One" now includes full version of FryingPan
Press release: Your hardware & software distributor RELEC is proud to announce that its famous bundle dedicated to its special configuration The Red One is still boostered.
Always for the same price, you get in this package: a SAM440ep motherboard and AmigaOS 4.1 OEM in the new box "The Red One", the game Word Me Up XXL of Boing Attitude :o), and now the excellent CD/DVD burning software FryingPan in partnership with its editor TBS-Software, all in its aluminum suitcase for travel! (cg)
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05.Nov.2008
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AROS: GTK-Wrapper GTK-MUI 2.0
GTK-MUI is a Wrapper with which you can convert GTK-applications for AROS/MUI.
The author Oliver Brunner has published now version 2.0 which was mainly new written and is based on glib/gobjects. Most parts of the original GTK-sources are used. Additionally many new "Widgets" have been added.
Despite this there are some limitations: GDK/Pango are still not implemented. But according to the author this is not important for most of the user-interfaces because these functions are supplied by MUI/Zune. If you are going to port a GTK-application you have to add some code on GTK-MUI.
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05.Nov.2008
André "Ratte" Pfeiffer (ANF)
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Layout for A1000-CPU-ROM-adapter available
André Pfeiffer's "A1000 CPU-ROM Adapter" allows you to run an Amiga 1000 either with Kickstart-ROMs or with Kickstart-disks. Pfeiffer has also published a board layout.
The archive includes a free viewer for Windows computers.
The layout is available in the Sprint-format and can be handled by most of the board producers.
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05.Nov.2008
Ventzislav Tzvetkov (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Atari-8-Bit-Emulator Atari++
The emulator Atari++ emulates Atari's 8-Bit home computer as well as the game console Atari 5200. The AmigaOS 4-port was written by Ventzislav "Dr. Hirudo" Tzvetkov, supports AmigaInput and can be controled with joysticks or analog controllers.
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04.Nov.2008
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 75 (November/December 2008)
Press release: The Amiga Future 75 (November/December 2008) has been released today. This means that all subscriptions, preorders and dealer supplies have been shipped.
In this issue you'll find reviews of recent versions of AmigaSYS, OWB, AmigaOS 4.1, MorphOS 2.1, AmiSoundEd, Indivision and lots of more. Besides that we have an interview with Hans-Jörg Frieden and ACube as well as reports of the Classic Computing, Pianeta and Evoke. A more detailed description of contents and some excerpts can be found at our website.
On the Amiga Future cover CD you always find lots of PD software and some full versions like Zombie Massacre, Gloom 3 and others.
The Amiga Future is available as an 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.
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03.Nov.2008
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AROS: GTK-MUI user-interface for E-UAE
Oliver Brunner who is the developer of a GTK-MUI-Wrapper has added a Zune user-interface to the Amiga emulator E-UAE for AROS/x86. It offers the same functions as the GTK-GUI for Unix.
Download: e-uae-gtk.i386-aros.tar.gz (3 MB)
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03.Nov.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: SabreMSN Alpha 34
James 'jahc' Carroll has published another update of his Instant Messenger for the MSN-network for AmigaOS 3 and AmigaOS 4 (screenshot). Changes in this version:
- The "cancel" buttons for file transfers work now. Also, Sabre now gives
more detailed reasons when transfers fail
- Increased the packet size back up to 2045 bytes
- Tinkered with typecasts for the headers for file transfer packets and
it seems to give correct values now. Hopefully transfers wont abort
midway through now
The author points out that SabreMSN only supports the older version of the MSN-protocol for file transfers. If an incoming transfer should be announced ("Waiting for incoming file..") but it will not start then the other user has a program which supports the newer version of the protocol. This implementation in SabreMSN will follow.
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03.Nov.2008
Sébastien Jeudy (ANF)
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Colmar Multimedia Expo: Reports, photos and videos
From 24. until 26. October in Colmar the Multimedia Expo 2008 took place. For Sébastien Jeudy from Relec the common booth with ACube and RMS Communications was a success:
Many users from France, Switzerland, Italy, Belgiun, Germany, Great Britain or Denmark visited the booth as well as some well-known faces from the whole Amiga-world - e.g. Hyperion Entertainment (Ben Hermans and the Frieden-brothers), Amiga-News.de, Voxel Amiga Shop, IMM Informatique, Amiga Repair Center.
You could see AmigaOS 4.1 on a SAM440ep, the SAM440ep-flex-motherboard, MorphOS 2.1 on an Efika and a Pegasos, the Minimig as well as AmigaOS 4.1 on a touchscreen for the first time.
The SAM440/AmigaOS 4.1-conference 50-60 persons attended it.
As a great ending RMS Communications with its KMU-software won the innovation price.
Further reports of the Colmar Multimedia Expo:
Philippe "Elwood" Ferucci (English)
Obligement.free.fr (French)
Amiga-NG.org (French)
AmigaImpact.org (French)
Photos:
Marlaine Savini & Sebastien Jeudy
Philippe Bourdin
Guibrush
Deelite
BigDan
Videos:
AmigaOS 4.1 driven by a touchscreen
Touchscreen support, part 2
Report from France3 TV (French)
Komplette SAM/OS4.1-Konferenz (French)
Komplette SAM/OS4.1-Konferenz (alternative link) (cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Nov.2008
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Vector graphic programm MOS-Creator 0.5b (Beta)
MOS-Creator written by Carsten Siegner is a Vector graphic programm implemented with Hollywood (screenshot) with which you can mainly create and print fast and easy PDF-documents.
Version 0.5b now can load unilateral as well as multilateral PDF-documents. Furthermore MOS-Creator can import files of the "Draw"-components of OpenOffice.org. The modul for .odg-files (Open-Office-Draw) supports the following vector objects:
- Pixel graphics
- circle
- Line
- Ellipse
- Text boxes
- Rectangle
- Square
Following shapes are supported:
- Rectangle
- Gluepoints
- Up-Arrow
- Down-Arrow
- Round-Rectangle
- Non-primitiv
- Star24
- Left-right-arrow
Download: mos-creator_0.5b.lha ( KB)
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01.Nov.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Boing Attitude finished partnership with Amiga Inc.
According to Boing Attitude on its website the partnership with Amiga Inc. was finished. THerefore the game Word Me Up is no longer available in the Amiga-Anywhere version.
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01.Nov.2008
Obligement (ANF)
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Obligement: Reviews of Sam440ep, MorphOS 2.1, Jagged Alliance and more
The following articles have been added to the website of the french Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. Furthermore, issues 88 - 91 (March - June 1996) of the former french magazine "Amiga News" are available.
- Amiga/MorphOS news of september/october 2008
- Old news of july/august 1999
- Report: Colmar Multimédia l'Expo 2008
- Review of MorphOS 2.1
- Review of Jagged Alliance 2
- Review of X-Moto
- Review of classic Amiga games: Fire And Brimstone, Héros, Alien Fish Finger, Cybernetix, Lost In Mine, Marvin\'s Marvellous Adventure, Nitro, Og The Caveman, Pierre Le Chef Is... Out To Lunch, Rick Dangerous, Simon The Sorcerer, Teenage Queen, Speris Legacy, The Sword And The Rose, Total Carnage, Traps N Treasures et, Ugh !, Second Samurai, Shadow Dancer, Shadow Of The Beast 2, Shadow Of The Beast 3, Silkworm, Starbirds, Superfrog, SWIV, Toki, Tubular Worlds, Unreal, UN Squadron, Wings Of Death, Wrath Of The Demon
- Hardware: Sam440ep
- File: History of the Amiga - year 1995 (update)
- File: Scoopex - part 4, Élévation! (1995-1996)
- File: Scoopex - part 5, The strategy to become the number 1 (1997-1998)
- File: The electronic mail
- Tutorial: Transfer ADF in a virtual drive
- Tutorial: Installation of MorphOS 2.x (update)
- Special quizz about Kick Off 2
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01.Nov.2008
Pegasosforum.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Software-News in brief
FloboPuyo 0.20
Flobopuyo is a Tetris version for one or two players where you have to arrange four coloured balls in a row to vanish them (screenshot). The current version is now available for MorphOS.
Download: flobopuyo-0.20_mos.tar.gz (2,9 MB)
Plot 1.5
Plot is a MUI-class written by Grzegorz 'krashan' Kraszewski and Michal 'rzookol' Zukowski with which you can create diagrams.
Download: plot.lha (125 KB)
SAB 1.0
The safe address book written by Rupert Hausberger is based on MUI, has a password protection (AES256-encryption) and compresses the entries with LZMA.
Download: SAB-morphos.lha (57 KB)
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01.Nov.2008
Pegasosforum.de (Webseite)
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File system: Ext2FS 0.33
Marek Szyprowski's Ext2FS makes it possible to work with Second Extended FileSystem (ext2) under MorphOS and AmigaOS 3.x.
Version 0.33 includes several bug fixes as well as the support of two further functions (action_fh_from_lock, action_mode_change).
Download: ext2fs_0.33.lha (91 KB)
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01.Nov.2008
Pegasosforum.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Alternative to the Commodore-Installer
Guido 'geit' Mersmann has published an installer for MorphOS which is an alternative to the installation programm developed by Commodore (screenshot).
The software is based on MUI. Therefore you can change the size of the windows. Additionally there is not any limitation concerning the text. Finally different preferences can be set as well as banners of the applications can be added.
Download: contrib_installer.tar (780 KB)
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01.Nov.2008
PPA (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: OCR-application GOCR 0.46
Steven Solie has compiled the OCR-programm GOCR for AmigaOS 4. The picture files pnm, pbm, pgm and ppm as well as partly pcx and tga can be read. Barcode-graphics are recognized as well.
Download: gocr.lha (314 KB)
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01.Nov.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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DupFinder MUI 2.0
Ilkka Lehtoranta has published an optimized update of Kjell Irgens' DupFinder. It is a programm which can recognize double files that have different names.
Download: DupFinderMUI.lha (55 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Nov.2008
Amiga Impact (website)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Driver and MUI software for Sweex 100K USB webcams
Mathias 'Corto' Parnaudeau, also known for Pointrider and the latest Songplayer versions, has written a new USB webcam driver for AmigaOS 4 (Sirion) and MorphOS (Poseidon). It displays the images using SDL or MUI and has been tested on Linux too (SDL frontend only).
The driver has been developed and tested with the webcam Sweex 100K, which is based on the sn9c10x chipset [VendorID = 0x0c45, ProductID = 0x6005 (tas5110c1b) bzw. 0x6009 (pas106b)].
Limitations:
- Images are saved to ram:sonix_capture.jpg only
- Sources need to be cleaned up but will be provided in the next version
- Components (red, green, blue) cannot be changed (no effect)
Download: sonix.lha (151 KB) (snx)
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31.Oct.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: SabreMSN Alpha 33
James 'jahc' Carroll has published another update of his Instant Messenger for the MSN-network for AmigaOS 3 and AmigaOS 4 (screenshot). Changes in this version:
- I didnt align my file info block structure properly, and it was reporting an incorrect filesize value for file transfers under OS3
- "Error: Incorrect Login or Password" is reported now for incorrect login details
- Groupchats seemed broken. I attempted to fix it again
- I've tinkered with the code for adding contacts
- Every MSN account you use with Sabre will now store an individual "renamed contacts" file (locally).
- "user says:" and "user is typing.." messages now use the local "renamed
contacts" names, so they match the name in the contacts list.
- Tinkered with file sending code slightly. It uses 127 byte packets now
to avoid problems with Sabre to Sabre file transfers. But sometimes sending
to Windows clients fails, reporting: "The file transfer was unsuccessful
because your computer is out of disk space. Try deleting some files, and
then ask the sender to try the transfer again."
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30.Oct.2008
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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E3B: Next edition of the USB2-controller Deneb
Press release: E3B is glad to announce another edition of the fastest USB2-controller for the Amiga Classic, called Deneb.
Because of the high demand of the first edition it was sold out very soon. The new edition is currently sent to all official traders.
The Deneb will be delivered with the new version 4.2 of the well-known USB-stack Poseidon written by Chris Hodges in FlashROM and is fully OEM-licenced. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Oct.2008
amiga.org (Website)
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Elbox: Driver update MM CD UP 1.31
Press release: The MM CD 1.31 update for users of Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D, Mediator PCI 4000Di, Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 TX, Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI 1200LT4, Mediator PCI 1200, Mediator PCI 1200LT and Mediator PCI ZIV busboards, who are registered owners of the Mediator Multimedia CD, has been released today.
The Mediator Multimedia CD UP 1.31 includes gfx drivers for the Radeon 9200 series cards for all Mediator models:
To locate the Radeon card suitable for your Mediator model, contact the ELBOX Support Department.
The update includes new versions of:
- Voodoo.card ver.4.28
- fm801.audio ver.4.12
- sb128.audio ver.4.18
- FastEthernet.device ver.1.22
- tv.library ver.4.9
The developer documentations for tv.library and mixer.library are enclosed with the MM CD 1.31.
Info on the current versions is available in the Downloads | Mediator section. The current list of supported PCI cards is available in the Mediator Driver Guide. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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28.Oct.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 1.5.3
As usual the developers of the well-known emulator WinUAE has given a preview of the next version. WinUAE 1.5.3 will be published in two weeks and includes several bug fixes as well as minor improvements of the emulation of the Custom Chips.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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27.Oct.2008
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Report and pictures of the Colmar Multimedia-Expo
Last weekend the Colmar Multimedia-Expo took place and Philippe Bourdin reports for Amiga-News.de and a gallery of the event can be found on his private website.
As a special highlight the Relec-team comprised of Emmanuel Rey and Sébastien Jeudy presented a kiosk system from KiOSKLiNEA / PASCOAL design at their booth. The system consists of industrial components like a vandalism-proof keyboard internals based on a SAM440ep. Additionally an infra-red touch screen was used, which was able to read the position of the finger (converted to the screen size) with a resolution of 32000x32000 pixels. The touch screen is available as a standard component with USB-connector and Windows-driver and will be physically mounted on top of a normal LCD display panel as an overlay device. AmigaOS 4.1 was installed in order to demonstrate the kiosk system.
Simon "Rigo" Archer created an OS4-driver for this touch screen in three days, without having access to the Windows-sources or the hardware documentation. Nonetheless, the driver has a very high resolution and is able work even with very fast movements, which can be transposed relatively easy with the hardware-accelerated compositing in AmigaOS.
ACube Systems was also present at the booth and showed the Minimig-board amongst others. For future developments, Philippe "Elwood" Ferrucci said in his presentation at the presentaion booth that ACube is happy about the public interest in SAM440ep and that the SAM440ep-flex (sometimes shortened as "SAM 1.5") will become available in the next few months. SAM440ep and the flex-variant (with 3 PCI slots but no onboard graphics) are the current product line-up and which will include the Flex available in the near future.
In principle, the target for current and future developments are the embedded market because of the advantages of the SAM support of light-weight operating system like AmigaOS and Linux. In particular the low power consumption of around 20 watts, the low operating temperature around 40 °C and the possibility for absolutely silent machine without any moving parts are best suited for special needs of certain applications in that area. Together with two Ethernet connectors even routing applications are possible. ZigBee and ccTalk are among the many variations that are perfect for industrial application customers.
The SAM440ep-flex will be bundled with AmigaOS 4.1 and Relec will offer it in the already known REL80 case (picture), because the TheRedOne case (picture) is only suited for the SAM440ep. There are negotiations going on for additional software bundles like the one with "Word Me Up XXL".
Whilst talking with Hans-Jörg and Thomas Frieden, the current priority in development of AmigaOS has clearly been formulated to finish the SAM-version of AmigaOS as soon as possible. This will then be delivered (including the SAM backplates) cost-free for previous customers. A new SDK for AmigaOS 4.1 is expected around December time that is going into beta testing very soon and will presumably include the gcc compiler 4.2.4 as well as Cairo header files. After these steps there is still work ongoing with Blender and some other project that is still not publicly announced on purpose.
Costel "Cyborg" Mincea is currently working on network drivers and would like to see new developers become involved on a Bluetooth project. Other important projects may include an AmigaOS version of wxWidgets that would ease a port of AudioEvolution. For applications like GIMP, a wrapper for GTK+ is helpful, since Cairo 2.8 is supported as a backend. Interested programmers are very welcome to apply to join.
Stéphane Guillard is currently working on a SATA 2 driver and "command queuing", which works quite similar to SCSI-reselect on the classic Amiga. One of his wishes would be a developer, who could work on a Firewire harddisk driver, which should not be a too challenging task, but first USB-2 on AmigaOS has the more priority.
Furthermore Jean-Francois "Voxel" Bachelet of the Voxel Amiga Shop and Jean-Jacques Boulet of the Amiga Reper Center have been there and were taking CyberstormPPC cards and AmigaOne boards for repair.
Unfortunately, the state of an OpenOffice-port is unchanged, basically whilst there was huge interest, no developer team for such a big project could yet been formed.
Additionally the Relec booth has had, beside the SAM systems, Pegasos and Efika systems running MorphOS 2 which could be tried out by the visitors.
Finally, a worthy mention of RMS Communications, who were surprised by the big public interest in their business software, for which they have been awarded the "Trophées de l'innovation" (innovation award) in the software category. The author Christoph Pölzl worked for around two and a half years on this hobby project, which can be seen as a competitor to SAPs SME-software (info) containing address database, project administration, purchasing, raw materials and finished product stockkeeping, accounting and in future even an internet shop as well as HTML and PDF export. The software is based on MUIbase, which is continually being improved by Steffen Gutmann.
The Colmar Multimedia-Expo has shown a lot of entertainment electronics, but Relec and ACube have built up some promising business contacts, and were very pleased with the outcome of the show.
The Amiga-News.de team wish the best of luck and much success to all participants! A special thank to Simon Archer for his help for the translation! (dr) (Translation: dr)
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26.Oct.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 2.13
Jörg Strohmayer has published a new version of his port of the Origyn Web Browser. Please note that currently AmigaOS 4.1 is required. The changes since the last release:
- Disabled the normal and wait mouse pointers. They are still included as Resources/disabled-pointerCursor.info and disabled-waitCursor.info, if you want to use them in OWB instead of the system ones rename them to pointerCursor.info and waitCursor.info (bugs.os4depot.net issue #34)
- Added a frame around the status bar (bugs.os4depot.net issue #33)
- Updated to SVN revision 600
- Added PUBSCREEN tooltype for changing the name of the public screen
- For font families without bold/italic fonts OWB now constructs them from the regular font of the family instead of using fonts from the fallback font families
- Added displaying the source
- Added support for external bookmark tools, tooltype BOOKMARKCOMMAND, the first %s is replaced by OWB's ARexx port name (bugs.os4depot.net issue #13)
- Included Paul E. Bloedel's AddressBook
- Included Fredrik Wikstrom's OWBLauncher tool with the splash image from Martin 'Mason' Merz (bugs.os4depot.net issue #32)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Oct.2008
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Event: Video of AmiWest 2008
Robert Bernardo memeber of the Fresno Commodore User Group recorded a video of the AmiWest 2008 which he published in two parts at blip.tv. You can see presentations by Jens Schönfeld (Indivdual Computers), Matthew Leaman (AmigaKit), Richard Drummond (Hyperion) and Steven Solie (Amiga Users of Calgary).
Video links:
Part 1
Part 2
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Oct.2008
Andre 'Ratte' Pfeiffer (ANF)
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KICKTOS: Kickstart disk for the Amiga 1000 with Atari TOS
Andre Pfeiffer wrote: In contrast to all other available Atari-ST-emulators KICKTOS boots a TOS (V1.02) to the original memory address where.
Because it hast only a size of 192 KB it was possible to set all Amiga specific special routines in the memory behind the TOS. The Amiga-1000-WOM has 256 KB;. Therefore for the Amiga specific routines 64 KB remains.
With the Amiga hardware the TOS is safe from destroying by overwriting and the whole normal memory remains for the applications.
The current version is only a technology demo because some adaptions of the memory management and keyboard requests must be improved.
A special thank to Toni Wilen who helped me with the peculiarities of the 68000. I only had to write KICKTOS 20 years ago... (snx) (Translation: dr)
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25.Oct.2008
Stanislaw Szymczyk (AROS-ML)
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AROS: Demo-CD for compiling the operating system under AROS
Stanislaw Szymczyk tries to achieve that the operating system AROS can be compiled under itself. The corresponding bounty project muste be finished until 1. December and currently 410 US-Dollar were donated.
For the first time the current update of his demo CD allows you to compile AROS. The compilation currently is limited to within the RAM Disk. For this about 512 MB of memory are required. The compalition lasts about six hours with a 2-GHz-processor.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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24.Oct.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Event: ACube Systems at Brusaporto Retrocomputing (Italy)
On 26. October close to Bergamo, Italy, the Brusaporto Retrocomputing 2008 will take place. With Libero Moschella a member of ACube Systems will take part and will tell about AmigaOS 4.1, the Sam440ep-Board and the Minimig.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Oct.2008
Amiga Impact (Webseite)
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Amiga Anywhere: Games for the Evo Smart Console
Under the title link Envizions Computer Entertainment Corporation has announced for November the Evo Smart Console based on auf Linux/x86 with games for Amiga Anywhere which you can buy in the webshop of Amiga Inc.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Oct.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AROS: Status-Update October 2008
Under the title link Paolo Besser has described the latest developments of the open source operating system AROS.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Oct.2008
Michal Schulz (E-Mail)
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AROS: USB-Mass-Storage-Bounty started
Michal Schulz has started the bounty project which in the end should deliver a DOS device driver for AROS with which you can connect file systems of USB devices.
In his Blog the developer explained that this feature is required for his Efika port project (Bounty #18) and that he cannot longer wait for the required amount of money for the Poseidon port. Currently 1465 of the required 4000 US-Dollar were donated. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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21.Oct.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Text editor: NoWinED 0.77
NoWinED is a MUI-based text editor for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS. The changes you can read in the changelog.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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21.Oct.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: RSS-Reader XNet-RSS 53.1
XNet-RSS shows RSS-feeds which are short messages.
Changes in version 53.1:
- Prefs: support for new transparency features in main window and news bar window (require AOS4.1)
- Prefs: could be started in iconified mode
- Prefs: max size of the displayed news channel icons could be set via env var (default to 16)
- GUI: added a vertical bar to resize the two main listbrowsers
- GUI: now uses requester.class instead of the ugly easyrequester
- Localization: added french and spanish catalogs (thanks to Alexandre and Emilio)
- Localization: reworked news translation via Babelfish
- RSS: improved RSS feeds compatibility
- RSS: improved error handling
- Bugs: removed a couple of nasty bugs in audio and bitmap handling (thanks to Stefano Guidetti and Martin Mckenzy)
Download: xnet_rss.lha (1 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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20.Oct.2008
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Event: Pictures from Van Pong tot Playstation
On 18. October the retro game and computer show "Van Pong tot Playstation" of the Commodore Gebruikersgroep (CGG) took place. On the homepage of the user group you can find several photos from the event which was according to the CGG one of the most visited ones of all times.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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20.Oct.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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IRC-Client: WookieChat 2.11 Beta 1
James 'jahc' Carroll has published an update of his MUI-based IRC-client WookieChat. Changes in this version:
- Part messages werent working on Undernet at times because the channel
had an extra character at the start.. i.e. instead of #newzealanders it
was :#newzealanders. therefore Wookie couldnt find the right tab to put
the part message in
- DCC has had a few bugfixes. There was a problem with not "long word
aligning" files when working with DCC. The problem only existed under
OS3 though, PPC was unaffected
- Norwegian language catalog updated
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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20.Oct.2008
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Preview of issue 75 (November/December 2008)
Press release: The preview and excerpts of the Amiga Future 75 (November/December) are online now. In this issue you'll find reviews of recent versions of AmigaSYS, OWB, AmigaOS 4.1, MorphOS 2.1 and much more.
Besides that we have an interview with Hans-Jörg Frieden and ACube as well as reports of the Classic Computing, Pianeta and Evoke. A more detailed description of contents and some excerpts can be on our website
The Amiga Future is available as an 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.
On the Amiga Future cover CD you always find lots of PD software and some full versions like Zombie Massacre, Gloom 3 and others.
We ask all users interested in this magazine to order it as soon as possible.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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20.Oct.2008
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Aminet-Uploads until 19.10.2008
These are the latest uploads to the Aminet which have been added since our last message:
muibase.i386-aros.zip biz/dbase 3.4M ARO Programmable relational database w/GUI
DirectoryOpus-4.18.12.lha biz/dopus 852K OS4 The legendary filemanager
WookieChat2.10_OS3.lha comm/irc 1.1M OS3 IRC client (Internet Relay Chat)
SpamFryer.lha comm/mail 370K GEN Deletes unwanted mail from server unread
Tubexx.lha comm/misc 540K GEN multifunction YouTube client
getvideo.lha comm/www 15K GEN get FLV files from YouTube etc.
netsurf.lha comm/www 3.4M OS4 Fast CSS capable web browser
OWB.lha comm/www 6.1M OS4 Origyn Web Browser
bin2dat.lha dev/basic 94K OS3 Converts bin files into Blitz data
mp3_dec.lha dev/basic 13K OS3 mpega.lib dev kit for Blitz+mp3 decoder
Annotate.lha dev/cross 118K OS3 Comment/reformat DASMX 2650 cross-disasm
AutoDocReader_1v5.lha dev/misc 332K VAR View autodocs, C headers and text files
Arduino_Python.lha dev/src 6K OS3 Arduino access using Python 1.4 to 2.6.
ADC-WinUAE.lha docs/hard 18K GEN ADC Ideas For WinUAE, GPL.
WinUAE_Arduino.lha docs/hard 23K VAR WinUAE_Arduino Diecimila DEMO ADC.
kuklomenos.i386-aros.zip game/actio 958K ARO An abstract vector shoot em up
Africa.lha game/board 213K OS3 Conversion of 3W boardgame
Saga.lha game/board 372K OS3 Conversion of TSR boardgame
BTCE.lha game/edit 100K OS3 Bard's Tale 1-3 & BTCS Character Editor
rrootage-os4.lha game/shoot 4.3M OS4 A great Japanese abstract shoot 'em up
rrootage.lha game/shoot 3.8M MOS rRootage is a manic shoot them up
openredalert-r460-68k.lha game/strat 765K OS3 OpenRedAlert for 68k Amigaos
wesnoth.lha game/strat 140M OS4 Battle for Wesnoth
Flog.lha game/wb 33K OS3 Have fun with this card game!
SoliTri.lha game/wb 33K OS3 Have fun with this card game!
exiftool.lha gfx/conv 2.1M GEN ExifTool
ibatch4b_eng.lha gfx/conv 122K VAR Sync picture dirs, batch rename/convert
ibatch4b_ger.lha gfx/conv 123K VAR Sync picture dirs, batch rename/convert
AmiCAD_2.26.lha gfx/edit 919K OS3 Schematics vectorial electronics program
SView5.lha gfx/misc 3.3M VAR SView5 Image Viewing/Processing Package
radioscript.lha gfx/show 24K GEN Arexx script for MPlayer
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 823K OS3 Signetics-based machines emulator
bin2tap-mos.lha misc/emu 26K MOS ZX Spectrum BIN to TAP utilities
dream102.lha misc/emu 170K OS3 Dragon, Tandy CoCo emulator
realspectools-mos.lha misc/emu 34K MOS ZX Spectrum TAP utilities
backincontrol.mp3 mods/kicko 11M GEN Psy Trance tune from Transplant
aw2sv.lha mus/edit 14K OS3 Converts AIF/WAV Audio to IFF-SV/FL
mp3toSV.lha mus/edit 12K OS3 Converts MPEG Audio to IFF-SV
bonk.lha mus/misc 100K OS4 Encode, decode and play .bonk files
mpeginfo.i386-aros.zip mus/misc 14K ARO Extracts info from MPEG files
playOGG.lha mus/play 3.7M OS3 multi format sound player.
tunebonk_plug.lha mus/play 73K OS4 Bonk plugin for TuneNet
ATcad_Profi.png pix/misc 10K GEN Screenshot of current ATcad (German)
THE.lha text/edit 1.5M MOS The Hessling Editor, a free XEDIT clone
E-UAELoad_v1.31.lha util/batch 116K VAR Auto configure WHDLoad games for E-UAE
gr_boot.lha util/boot 36K Amithlon/AROS GRUB boot setup
MakeList.lha util/cli 32K VAR Create file listing from directories
rxlistview.lha util/rexx 11K GEN Listview requester for Arexx scripts
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20.Oct.2008
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 19.10.2008
These are the latest uploads to the os4depot.net which have been added since our last message:
amisounded.lha aud/edi 99kb 32-bit mono/stereo sound editor
bonk.lha aud/mis 100kb Encode, decode and play .bonk files
dg_midi_player.lha aud/pla 250kb Simple MIDI player
gus_patches.lha aud/pla 29Mb GravisUltraSound-patches
tunebonk_plug.lha aud/pla 72kb Bonk plugin for TuneNet
protracker5_src.zip aud/tra 4Mb Protracker 5.0 Source Code
fireflies-src.lha dem/mis 98kb A nice OpenGL firefly effect (Sources)
fireflies.lha dem/mis 214kb A nice OpenGL firefly effect.
ps2client.lha dev/cro 114kb Interact with your PS2 via the network
memguard.lha dev/deb 27kb Mungwall-like tool for OS4
bfont.lha dev/lib 2Mb a font library for SDL
libao-dev.lha dev/lib 285kb Cross-platform Audio Library (Shared/Sta
libao-src.lha dev/lib 701kb Cross-platform Audio Library (Source)
libgfx.lha dev/lib 948kb a graphics library
libtimidity-dev.lha dev/lib 959kb add midi playback to your app! (Shared/S
compilergui.lha dev/uti 112kb GUI for compilers
contextmenuspl.lha doc/tut 2kb Polish ContextMenus.cfg translation for
rrootage.lha gam/act 4Mb A great Japanese abstract shoot em up
rrootagesrc.lha gam/act 4Mb rRootage sources
xmoto.lha gam/dri 32Mb A very good stunt motorcycle game.
uqm-src.lha gam/mis 1Mb Source for Ur-Quan Masters port
daimonin.lha gam/rol 31Mb Daimonin B4
netpanzer.lha gam/str 17Mb Multiplayer online RTS game with tanks
openreadalert.lha gam/str 1Mb Open Red Alert
wesnoth.lha gam/str 139Mb Battle for Wesnoth (stable version)
ibatch_eng.lha gra/con 139kb Sync Picture dirs + Batchrename and Batc
ibatch_ger.lha gra/con 145kb Sync Picture dirs + Batchrename and Batc
grafx2.lha gra/edi 808kb Pixel paint program (like DPaint etc).
glblankers.lha gra/scr 650kb Collection of OpenGL blanker modules
libao-usr.lha lib/aud 111kb Cross-platform Audio Library, (Shared)
netsurf.lha net/bro 2Mb Fast CSS capable web browser
owb.lha net/bro 6Mb Origyn Web Browser
datetime_docky.lha uti/doc 20kb Docky that displays the current time and
makelinkgui.lha uti/fil 77kb GUI for Makelink
timetraveler.lha uti/fil 98kb Trashcan + recycled browser
ranger.lha uti/mis 294kb System diagnostic tool
splashlauncher.lha uti/mis 89kb Splash image program launcher
glglobe.lha uti/sci 3Mb A nice OpenGL worldglobe
die.lha uti/she 1kb Kill your Amiga!
amytimer.lha uti/wor 69kb A timer
contexmenus_ita.lha uti/wor 1kb Italian translated ContextMEnus.cfg
fuelgauge.lha uti/wor 109kb Volume gauges underneath hard drive icon
windowthumbs.lha uti/wor 72kb Window thumbnails
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20.Oct.2008
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AROS-Archives: Uploads until 19.10.2008
These are the latest uploads to the AROS-Archives which have been added since our last message:
mpeginfo.i386-aros.zip aud/mis 14kb Extracts info from MPEG files
sdl_sand.i386-aros.zip dem/mis 196kb A cool falling sand simulator toy.
kuklomenos.i386-aros.zip gam/act 957kb Kuklomenos - an abstract vector shoot em
muibase.i386-aros.zip off/dat 3Mb Programmable relational database w/GUI
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